Nature Quotes
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Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, - the bare existence of such a power, - is a thing irreconcilable with the nature and spirit of our institutions.
Nicholas Trist
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I am a big fan of vampires. I've always been obsessed with the genre, and the beautiful romanticism and erotic kind of nature of the immortal being, the undead who lives on human blood.
Alex O'Loughlin
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If the basic human nature was aggressive, we would have been born with animal claws & huge teeth -- but ours are very short, very pretty, very weak! That means we are not well equipped to be aggressive beings. Even the size of our mouth is very small. So I think the basic nature of human beings should be gentle.
Dalai Lama
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Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die. The sun insists on gladness; but at night, When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.
Philip James Bailey
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Unless you're a vegan freak of nature like Tony Gonzalez, I don't think you can play sports much past your early 30s.
Jeff Ament
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Nature always levies her tribute.
Gene Stratton-Porter
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This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.
Plato
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YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature and YOU! WILL! ATONE!
Arthur Jensen
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The most insoluble problems are those which by their very nature can have no space within them for dreams.
Colleen McCullough
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All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides.
Judith Anderson
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Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis
Raoul Dufy
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The tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness. That isn't what they would describe what they're doing, but the fact is they make a virtue of the sort of hand-made nature of what they're doing.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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Gender and sex are about rules which we have invented, but we are animals; we belong to nature.
Alessandro Michele
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Nature can exist without Art, but Art can never exist without Nature.
Alois Podhajsky
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
Plotinus
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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.
Charles Dickens
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It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness.
Eliza Bisbee Duffey
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Nature is an unpleasing, stupid, lumpy, blowsy wench.
William Mortensen
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on the instant clamorous eaves, A climbing moon upon an empty sky, And all that lamentation of the leaves, Could but compose man's image and his cry.
William Butler Yeats
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At times there is nothing so unnatural as nature.
Carolyn Wells
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Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for - life by keeping eyes, mind and heart open to nature, men, books, experience - and what he gathers serves him at unexpected moments in unforeseen ways.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
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I am a lay historian by nature. I seek out an empirical reflection of what truth is. I sort of want dates and motivations and I want the whole story. But I've always felt, unconsciously, that all human history is that connection from person to person to person, event to event to event, and from idea to idea.
Tom Hanks
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Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe