Nature Quotes
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If human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
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Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.
Marianne Williamson
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The vast majority of species that are vanishing, we haven't even discovered yet. How can you possibly put them back in nature if the ecosystem is gone?
E. O. Wilson
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Being in nature is inspiring. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania and spent countless hours of my youth wandering the woods in awe of the beauty that exists all around us.
Allison McAtee
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The most important thing for me is the direct observation of nature in its light-filled existence.
August Macke
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In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir
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one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.
William Wordsworth
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The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.
George Eliot
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It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.
Bill Condon
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Despite their lack of visual impact, headline sex-appeal, and their 'out of sight, out of mind' nature, we should all care about aquatic dead zones because we are all connected to their causes and we all feel their impacts.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
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It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.
Baltasar Gracian
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Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.
Yann Martel
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To know well the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to know well the nature of princes one must be of the people.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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You can't look back at the worst financial crisis of our lifetimes that started in 2008 and not have some important lessons about the critical nature of oversights in financial markets and institutions.
Austan Goolsbee
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In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena.
Dalai Lama
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One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clothing...When he was supposed to be starting a militaristic revolution he was wearing evening dress and an ill-fitting black tailcoat...and his army medals.
A. N. Wilson
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Basically there is no difference between precognition and telepathy. The apparent difference is the result of an inadequate understanding of the nature of time.
Jane Roberts
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Gender or skin color does not of itself determine the nature of a person's thinking.
Marianne Williamson
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The history of man proves that religion perverts man's concept of life and the universe, and has made him a cringing coward before the blind forces of nature.
Joseph Lewis
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To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
William Ellery Channing
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It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
Hippocrates
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Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
Plato