Nature Quotes
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I wonder if it changes the nature of a society for beauty to be so common. Maybe in Vietnam "She has a wonderful personality" really means something. But I couldnt figure out a polite way to ask.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all other models; and always rely on this with a stout heart, especially as you begin to gain some judgment in draftsmanship.
Cennino Cennini
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The thing was not discussable, even with a near acquaintance like Calvin because … because of the nature of the thing … because one had to behave like a normal, unworried human being. That at least was sound and clear and gave him comfort: behave like a normal human being.
Brian Aldiss
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Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
Marcel Proust
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
Ansel Adams
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The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.
D. T. Suzuki
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Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of things.
Helen Keller
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Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
James Anthony Froude
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Stress reduction, greater physical health, a deeper sense of spirit, more creativity, a sense of play, even a safer life-these are the rewards that await a family then it invites more nature into children's lives.
Richard Louv
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I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature.
Brett Dennen
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But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
Richard Feynman
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There is nothing in nature quite so joyful as the very young and silly lamb - odd that it should develop into that dull and sober animal the sheep.
Esther Meynell
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To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature.
William Shakespeare
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Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee.
C. S. Lewis
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I have heard it said There is an art which in their piedness shares With great creating nature.
William Shakespeare
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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
Joseph Addison
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When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.
Michelangelo Antonioni
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Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of Nature; and from the tiny cell where he lodges, to wit the Universe, weigh at their true worth earth, kingdoms, towns, himself. What is a man face to face with infinity?
Blaise Pascal
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May books and nature be their early joy!
William Wordsworth
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They accuse me of having a hard hand, but people closest to me know that is not the nature of my heart.
Tomás Borge
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Man is nature as much as the trees.
Dan Kiley
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So shall we voyd of all craft and sail, with true reason declare how much each man erreth in life, judgement, opinion, and will. Some things there are that so wel do prove themselves, as besides nature nede no profe at all.
Gerolamo Cardano