Nature Quotes
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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus
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In Reykjavik, Iceland, where I was born, you are in the middle of nature surrounded by mountains and ocean. But you are still in a capital in Europe. So I have never understood why I have to choose between nature or urban.
Bjork
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Sunlight is painting.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I think that's my nature, to want to bring people together rather than to try to bombard them into agreement.
E. O. Wilson
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As an actor, I'm always critical watching others; it's just the nature of the beast. For me, any performance that doesn't cause my ego to say, 'I can do that' really signifies that it's spectacular.
David Alan Basche
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Say what we will, death is the best thing nature has found to please everyone. With each of us, everything vanishes, everything stops forever. What an advantage, what an abuse! Without the least effort on our part, we own the universe, we drag it into our own disappearance. No doubt about it, dying is immoral…
Emil Cioran
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To be international, you have to first be local. ... When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.
Abbas Kiarostami
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
Salman Rushdie
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.
Floyd Skloot
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
F. L. Lucas
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
Orison Swett Marden
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Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
Zane Grey
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I told myself, 'When I grow up, I want to make pictures that can inspire and nourish people.' Immediately, when I was 10, I started photographing nature. I built a darkroom. My first really good darkroom, not just down in the cellar, was when I was 14.
Bill Atkinson
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'You're still the same girl. What people do doesn't change their nature.'She shook her head.… 'What they do is their nature,' she said.
Kingsley Amis
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I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed;I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold,And I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.
Walt Whitman
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I don't think I'd get caught up in the crazy side of the music industry because it's just not in my nature.
Pixie Lott
