Nature Quotes
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Given angel's wings, where might you fly? In what sweet heaven might you find your love? Unwilling to be bound, where might you move, Lost between the wonder and the why?
Nick Gordon -
Watch nature, because it is your greatest teacher. It moves and flows and moves on again. There is an incredible beauty out there in the mountains, in the forests, to teach you it's silence, it's beauty, it's humility. Stay aligned to that.
Stuart Wilde
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Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities, and uplifts him whom she would inform. The apple that she drops at the feet of Newton is but a coy invitation to follow her to the stars.
Edwin Percy Whipple -
The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself.
Soren Kierkegaard -
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 -
Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence.
Nikola Tesla -
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
Michel Foucault -
Science has penetrated the constitution of nature, and unrolled the mysterious pages of its history, and started again many, as yet, unanswered questions in respect to the mutual relations of matter and spirit, of nature and of God.
Noah Porter
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God is not justice. Justice is in his nature, but love is predominant. People attach such importance to actions and their results. They do not know that above action and result is a law which can consume the fire of hell, which can dominate even if the whole world were being drowned in the flood of destruction; they do not know that the power of love is greater than any other.
Hazrat Inayat Khan -
Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with.
Nelson Shanks -
Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands.
Haruki Murakami -
I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.
Ricky Williams -
Your friend would control nature," said the Tree, rustling through each syllable one by one. "A witch must serve nature.
Charlie Jane Anders -
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Thomas Carlyle
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My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.
Tom Hanks -
We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.
Eugene Ionesco -
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 -
It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.
Nikola Tesla -
Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.
Paul Gauguin -
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
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Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.
Eugene Delacroix -
A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.
George Bernard Shaw -
For all Nature is as one Great Engine, made by, and held in His Hand.
Nehemiah Grew -
A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.
Ernst Mayr