Nature Quotes
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As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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But there is no use in trying to engraft an opposite nature on one’s own. What I am, that I must be, except as God changes me into His own image. And everything brings me back to that, as my supreme desire. I see more and more that I must be myself what I want my children to be and that I cannot make myself over even for their sakes. This must be His work, and I wonder that it goes on so slowly, that all the disappointments, sorrows, sicknesses I have passed through have left me still selfish, still full of imperfections!
Elizabeth Prentiss
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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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By nature, I’m rather passive so it’s important for me to appear confident on stage. I was very nervous.
Park Ji-young After School
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That’s the nature of the beast. We are what we are.
Ben Aaronovitch
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Nature always levies her tribute.
Gene Stratton-Porter
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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
Jane Austen
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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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Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.
Seneca the Younger
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Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.
Susan Griffin
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Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise - they are what they are.
James Hansen
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
Baruch Spinoza
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..and the first thing for he artists of Die Brücke was free drawing from the free human figure in the freedom of nature.. .We drew and we painted. Hundreds of paintings a day, with talk and fooling in between, the artists joining the models before the easel and vice versa. All the encounters of everyday life were incorporated in our memories in this way. The studio became the home of the people who were being drawn; they learned from the artists and the painters from them. The picture made took on immediate and abundant life.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
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Nature's first great title - mind.
George Croly
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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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It's just a part of our nature to hope.
Elizabeth Edwards
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I'm an advocate of human nature.
Jaron Lanier
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You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature.
William Rotsler
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In nature nothing exists alone.
Rachel Carson
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Because what is the face, what finally, is the skin over the flesh, a cover, a disguise, rouge for the insupportable horror of our living nature.
Elena Ferrante
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I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.
William Wordsworth
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I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.
Richard Russo
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Nature is not the number-one mystery, I’ve learned. It’s the heart that takes top honors.
Beth Kephart
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It was marvelous to cross borders, to let oneself go within other cultures, discover the provisional nature of what I had taken for absolute.
Elena Ferrante