Nature Quotes
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Those who lift their hats shall see Nature as devout do God.
Emily Dickinson -
The purpose of creation is beauty. Nature in all its various aspects develops towards beauty, and therefore it is plain that the purpose of life is to evolve towards beauty.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
George Ross Kirkpatrick -
Nature is actually unnatural.
Haruki Murakami -
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?
Ernestine Rose -
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 -
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 -
The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature.
Alfred Harker
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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.
Enid Lyons -
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 -
Human nature doesn't really change a lot. We haven't changed that much and politics haven't changed that much. It's still the same things we're debating today that we did 300 years ago, which is a little bit scary when you think about it.
Nikolaj Arcel -
A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.
Ernst Mayr -
But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
Richard Feynman -
If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.
Susanne Langer
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I am an actor and this is holding the mirror up to nature, as it were.
Harry Dean Stanton -
Nature is as it is because this is the only possible nature consistent with itself.
Geoffrey Chew -
For nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good; it is civilization which ruins him.
Jostein Gaarder -
Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with.
Nelson Shanks -
Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.
Paul Gauguin -
I already realized that time that only a new study of nature and a new attitude towards life would bring the much-needed renewal of German art.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
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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 -
Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
Thomas Carlyle -
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 -
For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see.
Eva Figes