Nature Quotes
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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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Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is not only a condition of nature, but a state of mind and mood and heart. It cannot be confined to the museum-case status—seen only as a passing diorama from superlative throughways.
Ansel Adams
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That’s the nature of the beast. We are what we are.
Ben Aaronovitch
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Be empty. Be still. Just watch everything come and go. This is the way of Nature.
Lao Tzu
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The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I do not see why man should not be as cruel as nature.
Adolf Hitler
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The forests are the flag's of Nature. They appeal to all and awaken inspiring universal feelings. Enter the forest and the boundaries of nations are forgotten. It may be that sometime an immortal pine will be the flag of a united and peaceful world.
Enos Mills
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I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.
Edwin A. Abbott
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What else is nature but God?
Seneca the Younger
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All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.
John Ruskin
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According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love.
Marcel Proust
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A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.
William Jay
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All that could run or leap or swim Whether in wood, water or cloud, Acclaiming, proclaiming, declaiming Him.
William Butler Yeats
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It must be possible to solve the task of controlling nature and yet simultaneously create a new freedom.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Art is a creation of a higher order than a copy of nature which is governed by chance..
Paul Signac
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The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own.
Nicholas of Cusa
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Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.
John Bradshaw
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We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.
George Eliot
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I already realized that time that only a new study of nature and a new attitude towards life would bring the much-needed renewal of German art.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
Honore de Balzac
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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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Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.
Sandra Day O'Connor
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The possible signs of a coming collapse are the same as the greatest strengths of Western civilization: democracy, capitalism, the generally peaceful linking of world economic systems, our amazing success in harnessing the powers of nature to the betterment of the human condition in health, subsistence, longevity. These are the hallmarks of our society - its most successful elements.
Arthur Demarest
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There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.
Francis Bacon