Nature Quotes
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I'm an advocate of human nature.
Jaron Lanier
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I look out this window and think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and the birds and everything else and I am part of it. I didn't ask to be put here. I've been lucky finding myself here.
Morris West
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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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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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Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.
Seneca the Younger
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Nature has made nothing in vain.
Delarivier Manley
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You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, and you can't change human nature from intelligent self-interest into pure idealism—not in this life; and if you could, what would be left for paradise?
Joseph Cannon
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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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In nature nothing exists alone.
Rachel Carson
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Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.
John Bradshaw
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I think games are a good medium for approaching any subject, particularly difficult ones, because by their very nature, they are abstract, invite interaction and allow us to confront and question things... particularly rules that we may blindly follow.
Brenda Brathwaite
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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.
Helen Keller
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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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Nature is always wise in every part.
Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
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One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.
Miguel de Cervantes
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That’s the nature of the beast. We are what we are.
Ben Aaronovitch
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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.
George W. P. Hunt
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Everything is natural and nature is the whole of everything of which I am apart of and so are you.
Bryan Kest
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The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature.
Stephen Levine
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As humans try to evolve out of greed, let's put aside some wild places, protected lands, protected farms, things like that, since we may not evolve fast enough to protect nature.
Elizabeth Lesser
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Painful feeling is suffering in itself; pleasant feeling brings suffering through its transiency and its unsatisfying and unsatisfactory nature.
Nyanaponika Thera
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Mathematics has always shown a curious ability to be applicable to nature, and this may express a deep link between our minds and nature. We are the Universe speaking out, a part of nature. So it is not so surprising that our systems of logic and mathematics sing in tune with nature.
George Zebrowski
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Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.
Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker
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When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe