Nature Quotes
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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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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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Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.
John Bradshaw
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Engineering -nature is engineering, so is culture, science is right behind, only chaos is not an engineer- and, along with it, the furious need to reproduce.
Elena Ferrante
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I try to work all over the canvas at once, because I feel that the forces of nature are unpredictable.
Nell Blaine
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When all within is peace How nature seems to smile Delights that never cease The live-long day beguile
William Cowper
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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
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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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How very sad it is to have a confiding nature, one's hopes and feelings are quite at the mercy of all who come along; and how very desirable to be a stolid individual, whose hopes and aspirations are safe in one's waistcoat pocket, and that a pocket indeed, and one not to be picked!
Emily Dickinson
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Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with.
Nelson Shanks
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Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
Sydney Smith
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Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
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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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Culture is what people invent when they have lost nature.
Diane Ackerman
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.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.
Baruch Spinoza
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Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.
Diane Ackerman
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Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.
Jonathan Swift
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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
Arthur Conan Doyle
