Nature Quotes
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Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.
Brian Greene
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When women reach the age of maturity, Mother Nature sometimes overworks their frustration to the point of irrationalism. Like themiddle-aged man...who finds himself looking longingly at a girl in her early twenties.
Mark Hanna
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Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.
Dorothy Dunnett
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Law is born from despair of human nature.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.
Nan Fairbrother
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It is in my nature to give the work I have all the discipline and due diligence that I am capable of.
Priyanka Chopra
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When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.
Charles Rosen
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Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?Is it possible that a theory of man is nothing more nor less than a theory of the speaking creatures?
Walker Percy
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Many economists are great believers in the idea that everything in nature is competitive and that we should set up a society which is competitive to reflect that. Anyone who cannot keep up, well, too bad.
Frans de Waal
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That's what life is all about: remembering someone and smiling!
Minnie Pearl
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A poor relation-is the most irrelevant thing in nature.
Charles Lamb
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When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.
Laura Dern
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Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he refers his problems back to all of them, he will assign the "why" in the way proper to his science-the matter, the form, the mover, that for the sake of which.
Aristotle
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Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.
H. P. Lovecraft
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To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I grew up in Belle Harbor, which is in New York City, but it has the most powerful sense of nature and seasons. It wasn't even the beach and the water. I just dreamt about everything that had to do with nature. I read about Thoreau.
Joel Sternfeld
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I admit that some of my ideas may have turned out to be pessimistic in nature.
Sergio Leone
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I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.
Lena Dunham
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Very few of us trust our immediate connection with nature, or the intuitive intelligence of our body. All too easily, we align ourselves with the logical world of Masculine intelligence. As a culture, we have become so Masculine that we are much more comfortable with analytical problem-solving than with ecstatic dancing!
David Deida
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I like to be with my partner in the bed, to ride my Norton - and maybe it doesn't like me, and that's why I'm on the floor so often -, to play sports, to be with my friends and chat. And nature. It's wonderful to be lost in the desert, or between the waves over a surf board. I'm a life lover.
Keanu Reeves
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This whole world is one great City, and one is the substance whereof it is fashioned: a certain period indeed there needs must be, while these give place to those; some must perish for others to succeed; some move and some abide: yet all is full of friends-first God, then Men, whom Nature hath bound by ties of kindred each to each. (123).
Epictetus
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Having been in the restaurant business, our job in the restaurant business is to be responsible for our customers' happiness. It's the nature of the hospitality business. You need to take care of people. You take care of customers above all others. Customers are your lifeblood.
Andrew Zimmern
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I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!
Zac Efron
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By nature, I sit alone in a room and type... My goal was never celebrity.
Jenji Kohan