Nature Quotes
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To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature.
Aristotle -
Every realm of nature is marvelous.
Aristotle
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Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.
Antoni Gaudi -
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Hal Borland -
One of the things I've really come to realise is that the chances of arriving at a universal truth are increased if you remain absolutely faithful to the contingencies of your own experience and the vagaries of your own nature.
Geoff Dyer -
It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
Gavin Newsom -
Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
Christopher Lasch -
Amid this life based on coercion, one and the same thought constantly emerged among different nations, namely, that in every individual a spiritual element is manifested that gives life to all that exists, and that this spiritual element strives to unite with everything of a like nature to itself, and attains this aim through love.
Leo Tolstoy
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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 -
In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are intended to produce; and in the mechanism of a plant, or animal body, admire how every thing is contrived for advancing the two great purposes of nature, the support of the individual, and the propagation of the species.
Adam Smith -
But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
Rene Descartes -
The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
Jacques Yves Cousteau -
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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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Frank Lloyd Wright -
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 -
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel Johnson -
Since Sputnik, the earth has been wrapped in a dome-like blanket or bubble. Nature ended.
Marshall McLuhan -
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
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Nature fits all her children with something to do,He who would write and can't write, can surely review.
James Russell Lowell -
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Galileo Galilei -
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
D. H. Lawrence -
Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
Vanessa Carlton