Nature Quotes
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Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.
Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker -
It's just a part of our nature to hope.
Elizabeth Edwards
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If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.
Thomas Aquinas -
Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
Terence McKenna -
I am an Instrument of Nature..Love is my message.
Michael Jackson -
The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along.
H. W. Brands -
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Jimmy Carter -
I thought how sadly beauty of inscape was unknown and buried away from simple people and yet how near at hand it was if they had eyes to see it and it could be called out everywhere again.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Culture is what people invent when they have lost nature.
Diane Ackerman -
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 -
We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature.
Susan Griffin -
According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love.
Marcel Proust -
Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a dysfunctional delusion.
Petra Kelly
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Art is a creation of a higher order than a copy of nature which is governed by chance..
Paul Signac -
Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.
Sidney Altman -
It is immediately apparent, however, that this sense-world, this seemingly real external universe - though it may be useful and valid in other respects - cannot be the external world, but only the Self's projected picture of it ... The evidence of the senses, then, cannot be accepted as evidence of the nature of ultimate reality; useful servants, they are dangerous guides.
Evelyn Underhill -
Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear that he ever really did.
Elizabeth Kolbert -
Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition.
Elihu Palmer -
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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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 -
The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin -
I am inspired when I see goodness in other people. I am inspired by hard work and honesty. And I am inspired by nature.
Tricia Helfer -
In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.
Jonathan Swift