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Vladimir Nabokov on nature
Author: Vladimir Nabokov“It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.” -Vladimir Nabokov
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John Cage on nature
Author: John Cage“The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.” -John Cage
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Andrew Marvell on nature
Author: Andrew Marvell“Self-preservation, nature’s first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.” -Andrew Marvell
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Primo Levi on nature
Author: Primo Levi“Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.” -Primo Levi
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Georg Cantor on nature
Author: Georg Cantor“I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.” -Georg Cantor
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David Attenborough on nature
Author: David Attenborough“Nature isn’t positive in that way. It doesn’t aim itself at you. It’s not being unkind to you.” -David Attenborough
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David Bailey on nature
Author: David Bailey“The skull is nature’s sculpture.” -David Bailey
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Francis Ford Coppola on nature
Author: Francis Ford Coppola“Listen, if there’s one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it’s that I don’t know anything about human nature.” -Francis Ford Coppola
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Christopher Alexander on nature
Author: Christopher Alexander“The structure of life I have described in buildings – the structure which I believe to be objective – is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.” -Christopher Alexander
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Garry Kasparov on nature
Author: Garry Kasparov“Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.” -Garry Kasparov
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Vera Farmiga on nature
Author: Vera Farmiga“The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.” -Vera Farmiga
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Tony Campolo on nature
Author: Tony Campolo“There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.” -Tony Campolo
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Alan Hovhaness on nature
Author: Alan Hovhaness“I’ve always regarded nature as the clothing of God.” -Alan Hovhaness
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Steve Lacy on nature
Author: Steve Lacy“I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.” -Steve Lacy
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Conor Cruise O’Brien on nature
Author: Conor Cruise O’Brien“Human nature doesn’t include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.” -Conor Cruise O’Brien
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David Suzuki on nature
Author: David Suzuki“As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.” -David Suzuki
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Diablo Cody on nature
Author: Diablo Cody“People have always wanted to be recognized, and that’s human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they simply want to be visible.” -Diablo Cody
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Ron Fournier on nature
Author: Ron Fournier“Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters – having held out so long against the incumbent – are by nature looking for change.” -Ron Fournier
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Jane Smiley on nature
Author: Jane Smiley“There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.” -Jane Smiley
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Willem de Kooning on nature
Author: Willem de Kooning“The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.” -Willem de Kooning
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Andrew Cuomo on nature
Author: Andrew Cuomo“Ninety percent of the students take the ‘preferred lender.’ Why? Because that’s the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.” -Andrew Cuomo
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Herbert Spencer on nature
Author: Herbert Spencer“The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.” -Herbert Spencer
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Nicolas Chamfort on nature
Author: Nicolas Chamfort“Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent.” -Nicolas Chamfort
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Jennifer Jason Leigh on nature
Author: Jennifer Jason Leigh“I’m a typical middle child. I’m the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody’s happy. It’s hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.” -Jennifer Jason Leigh
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Jerome K. Jerome on nature
Author: Jerome K. Jerome“I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.” -Jerome K. Jerome