Nature Quotes
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We can't control forces of nature. But we can control what comes afterward. We have a chance to start fresh.
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Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed with blood and violence, how quietly the grass grows.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.
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In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What is a black-and-white drawing but a convention to which the beholder has become so accustomed that with his mind's eye he sees a complete equivalent in the translation from nature?
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Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.
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Now, as God the maker play'd he taught the game to Nature whom he created in his image; taught her the selfsame game which he played to her.
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Culture is what people invent when they have lost nature.
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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.
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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.
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I know no study that will take you nearer the way to happiness than the study of nature - and I include in the study of nature not only things and their forces, but also mankind and their ways, and the moulding of the affections and the will into an earnest desire not only to be happy, but to create happiness.
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What else is nature but God?
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Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat analogous to that of the blessed word 'evolution' in the late nineteenth.
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Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.
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Nature has made nothing in vain.
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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.
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Have you ever noticed the perfection of nature? The seasons and how one changes into the next, the falling leaves, composting soil, rains, new seedlings, sunshine, growth, blossoms, etc. Grass grows, deer eats grass, lion eats deer, deer population is stabilized so there is grass for other animals; sunrise and sunset, boy and girl, winter and summer.
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The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature.
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
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There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.
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Nature intends all men and women to be mental and spiritual giants, and does not intend that any one should follow the will of another.
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Being constantly surprised about what nature can create, that inspires me beyond belief.
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The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.
