Nature Quotes
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The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
William Wordsworth
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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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Through true honestydeeply believethat all sentient-beings are one.That all beings have the sametrue nature,wisdom,virtue.
Gautama Buddha
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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 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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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 earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.
Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker
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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.
Harry Crews
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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
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Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature.
Nicholas Sparks
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I think that what I do is a form of pathetic fallacy, the literary trope in which nature is in sympathy with the mood of the story. I connect the physical setting and props in the story to the emotional state of the characters.
Elizabeth Wein
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There is no necessary connection between warfare and human nature. Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
Margaret Mead
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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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There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.
Jonathan Swift
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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.
Arthur Oncken Lovejoy
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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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Nature may reach the same result in many ways.
Nikola Tesla
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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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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
Seneca the Younger
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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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Science is simply the method we use to try and postulate a minimum set of assumptions that can explain, through a straightforward logical derivation, the existence of many phenomena of nature.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
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Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.
Sandra Day O'Connor
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What else is nature but God?
Seneca the Younger
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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.
Christian D. Larson