Nature Quotes
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Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.
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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
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Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
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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.
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Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.
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Hiking a ridge, a meadow, or a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get. Hiking seems to put all the body cells back into rhythm. Ten to twenty miles on a trail puts one to bed with his cares unraveled.
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. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.
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...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
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I am an actor and this is holding the mirror up to nature, as it were.
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A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.
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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.
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The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature.
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He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.
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The Present only has a being in Nature; things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have no being at all; the Future but a fiction of the mind.
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A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.
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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.
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None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.
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When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their existence as human beings. Their actions against Nature must lead to their own downfall.
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It's human nature when you first make your big fortune to want to show off a bit. I don't begrudge that whatsoever.
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Nature is as it is because this is the only possible nature consistent with itself.
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It's time to change the conversation about nature to focus on what we all have in common: our shared humanity.
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It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.
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For the nature of a women is closely allied to art.
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Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.
