Nature Quotes
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In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
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My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.
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Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition.
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Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.
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Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?
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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.
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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.
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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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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.
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To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace.
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Man is a predatory animal, and this aspect of his nature is nowhere better suited by environment than in the world of politics.
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For all Nature is as one Great Engine, made by, and held in His Hand.
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Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed with blood and violence, how quietly the grass grows.
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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.
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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.
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The great revelation of the quantum theory was that features of discreteness were discovered in the Book of Nature, in a context in which anything other than continuity seemed to be absurd according to the views held until then.
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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.
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Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.
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Vera Stark is a fabulous force of nature.
