Nature Quotes
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We emerged out of nature, and when we die, we return to nature. We need to know there are forces impinging on us that we will never understand or control. We need to have sacred places where we go with respect, not just looking for resources or opportunity.
David Suzuki -
A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified, From the Marxist point of view, which expresses the historical interests of the proletariat, the end is justified if it leads to increasing the power of man over nature and to the abolition of the power of man over man.
Leon Trotsky
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Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.
Aristotle -
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Victor Hugo -
Aussi, les demeures disposées des deux côtés du chenal faisaient penser à des sites de la nature, mais d'une nature qui aurait créé ses œvres avec une imagination humaine.
Marcel Proust -
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Nature is full of infinite causes which were never set forth in experience.
Leonardo da Vinci -
Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature.
Plato
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It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
Oscar Wilde -
One shall be born from small beginnings which will rapidly become vast. This will respect no created thing, rather will it, by its power, transform almost every thing from its own nature into another.
Leonardo da Vinci -
To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature.
Aristotle -
Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.
C. S. Lewis -
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Hal Borland -
Every realm of nature is marvelous.
Aristotle
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Instinct reveals itself as self-concentrating, self-edifying it is limitation. Intuition produces self-denial, self-destruction; it is expansion. Culture can develop both. If it develops instinct, animal nature appears. Then culture destroys the intuitive capacity which men have even found in a primitive state.
Piet Mondrian -
Nature is very cruel. It is much riskier to love any living being than not. I'm painfully aware that even my little dog is a walking bundle of mortality. I'm painfully aware he's going to pass.
Mark Rylance -
Since Sputnik, the earth has been wrapped in a dome-like blanket or bubble. Nature ended.
Marshall McLuhan -
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture...In a house, we all feel of the proper proportions. Everything is subordinated to us, fashioned for our use and our pleasure.
Oscar Wilde -
Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
Xun Kuang -
It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
Tacitus
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Necessity is the mistress and guardian of Nature.
Leonardo da Vinci -
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Aristotle -
Endurance, after all, is the only reason we even exist. We think of ourselves as nature's deadliest animals, but the truth is, a naked human is the biggest wimp in the wild. We have no fangs, no claws, no strength, and no speed.
Christopher McDougall -
It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
Gavin Newsom