nature
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘nature’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.” -Werner Heisenberg
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“There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.” -Alfred Austin
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“Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does or that his soul might die without his knowing it?” -Albert J. Nock
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“The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces – in nature, in society, in man himself.” -Leon Trotsky
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“The fans know what’s happened to me over the past couple of years. I lost my family. I pretty much got devastated financially and the fans know that I’ve had some hard times – and that’s the nature of loyal fans. They want to see the people that they love and believe in get back…
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“There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.” -Charles Eastman
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“Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!” -Taslima Nasrin
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“I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.” -Willie Stargell
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“It’s human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That’s just so normal.” -Amy Grant
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“Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.” -Xun Zi
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“Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.” -Lauryn Hill
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“We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people.” -George Lincoln Rockwell
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“I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.” -Yvon Chouinard
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“I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I’m not thinking about the camera and that it’s second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it.” -Anna Kendrick
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“It’s a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.” -Karen Armstrong
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“Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling – ‘Oh, blah, blah, blah, I’m wearing Hermes blah, blah, blah, I’m wearing Saint Laurent blah-blah blah’ – because it’s like a need, a tribe, recognition: ‘Ahh, my Rolex.’ But I run away from anything which is too recognizable –…
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“French is a foreign language, but I’ve been speaking it since I was 18 so it’s second nature to me.” -Kristin Scott Thomas
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“The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.” -Euclid
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“I think there’s a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don’t have to think about it.” -Clyde Tombaugh
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“Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.” -Thomas Edward Brown
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“Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.” -Alfred North Whitehead
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“In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.” -Thomas Hobbes
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“Beauty is nature’s brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.” -John Milton
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“I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it’s a painful, difficult search within.” -Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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“I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.” -Pat Buckley
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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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“Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.” -Andrea Arnold
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“Human nature is above all things lazy.” -Harriet Beecher Stowe
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“We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.” -Abdolkarim Soroush
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“Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.” -Jack Herer
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“The scientist does not study nature because it is useful he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.” -Henri Poincare
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“By nature, men love newfangledness.” -Geoffrey Chaucer
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“There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.” -Arthur Erickson
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“I love romantic comedies. They’re for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There’s nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That’s not second nature to me, thank God.” -Gabrielle Union
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“Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.”…
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“Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.” -Noam Chomsky
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“The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.” -Georg C. Lichtenberg
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“I don’t think I’ll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It’s not in my nature.” -Ricky Williams
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“Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.” -Thomas Frank
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“Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.” -Joseph Butler
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“The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.” -Rupert Sheldrake
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“Nature chooses who will be transgender individuals don’t choose this.” -Mercedes Ruehl
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“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.” -Mary Wollstonecraft
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“If you can’t be in awe of Mother Nature, there’s something wrong with you.” -Alex Trebek
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“The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.” -Margaret J. Wheatley
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“There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.” -Stanislav Grof
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“Quantum computation is… a distinctively new way of harnessing nature… It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.” -David Deutsch
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“Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.” -Steven Pinker
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“Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye… it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.” -Edvard Munch
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“For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.” -Patricia Highsmith
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“A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.” -Louis Nizer
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“Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.” -George Whitefield
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“I don’t understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It’s a pretty gross interference with nature.” -Peter Singer
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“Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.” -Corin Nemec
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“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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“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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“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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“Self-preservation, nature’s first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.” -Andrew Marvell
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“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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“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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“A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.” -Michael Pollan
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“If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.” -Charlotte Bronte
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“To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you’re better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature – and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.” -James Buchan
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“It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.” -Taylor Caldwell
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“The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders’ attitudes toward risk – and failure.” -Dee Dee Myers
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“Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.” -Josef Albers
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“Most of us really aren’t horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put ’em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.”…
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“We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.” -David Ogden Stiers
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“Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.” -Pliny the Elder
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“Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.” -William Law
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“I’m very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What’s most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.” -Hugh Hefner
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“The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.” -Quintilian
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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.” -Steve Lacy
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“I’ve always regarded nature as the clothing of God.” -Alan Hovhaness
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“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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“The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.” -Vera Farmiga
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“Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.” -Garry Kasparov
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“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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“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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“I wish that all of nature’s magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.” -Annie Leibovitz
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“And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.” -Adam Weishaupt
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“The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.” -Muhammad Iqbal
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“Compared to America or Europe, God isn’t a big part of our lives here. I don’t know anyone here who goes to church when he’s had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.” -Bjork
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“A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn’t even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.” -Thor Heyerdahl
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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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“Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.” -Bhumibol Adulyadej
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“You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That’s how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source…
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“I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can’t. It’s against the law of nature.” -Bryan Cranston
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“Don’t be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.” -Camille Pissarro
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“To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them – these nature spirits who call us here – sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.” -Alex Grey
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“Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.” -Samuel Richardson
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“Nothing. We’re all friends and friendly. So when the cameras go down, depending on the mood or the nature of the material we’re dealing with, there’s usually a kind of a prevailing light attitude that’s floating around.” -Richard Dean Anderson
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“One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.” -Walter Bagehot
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“I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.” -Lena Dunham
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“I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.” -Jerome K. Jerome
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“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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“A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.” -Wallace Stevens
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“Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature’s teachings.” -William C. Bryant
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“The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man’s disrespect for nature.” -Joni Mitchell
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“I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama’s boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.” -Ayelet Waldman
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“Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.” -Graham Greene
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“Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.” -John Updike
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“Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.” -Ben Stein
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“The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.” -H. P. Blavatsky
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“I’d love to go back to Europe in the ’20s and ’30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement, and Freud and Jung, and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The whole nature of reality was changing and being challenged.” -Michael Sheen
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“Sound is the vocabulary of nature.” -Pierre Schaeffer
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“Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.” -Titus Livius
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“Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.” -Arthur C. Clarke
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“I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.” -Wilhelm von Humboldt
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“Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.” -Sienna Miller
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“In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.” -Henri Matisse
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“The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.” -Auguste Rodin
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“Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.” -William Ralph Inge
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“The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.” -Edward Gibbon
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“Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?” -Herman Melville
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“Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.” -Horace Walpole
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“The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.” -Giacomo Casanova
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“What I’m attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they’ll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don’t need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful…
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“It’s human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn’t banging loudly on the door.” -David Hackworth
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“I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I’ve seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don’t know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.” -Regina Spektor
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“There’s a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.” -John Mayer
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“I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you’re wonderful every time you do something I think that’s human nature.” -David Duchovny
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“A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!” -Henry Fielding
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“It’s just a part of our nature to hope.” -Elizabeth Edwards
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“I’ve probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.” -Jacqueline Bisset
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“It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.” -Hannah Arendt
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“Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.” -Thomas Hardy
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“It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.” -Sallust
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“Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.” -Robinson Jeffers
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“The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men’s apples and head their cabbages.” -Cyrano de Bergerac
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“Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature’s chief masterpiece is writing well.” -Andre Breton
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“No further evidence is needed to show that ‘mental illness’ is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.” -Thomas Szasz
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“Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man’s nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.” -Robert Bork
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“Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.” -Juvenal
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“Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.” -Michael Faraday
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“If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.” -Julian Assange
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“Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.” -Christopher Lasch
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“A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.” -Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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“I’ve been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.” -Maria Sharapova
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“I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It’s like nature’s Neosporin.” -Matt LeBlanc
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“Beauty is grace and confidence. I’ve learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.” -Lindsay Lohan
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“All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.” -John Coltrane
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“Nature is the master of talents genius is the master of nature.” -J. G. Holland
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“The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.” -Toni Morrison
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“We don’t do things we aren’t good at by nature. I wouldn’t play basketball because I’m only 5′ 1″. Find what you enjoy – whether it’s racing, flying a helicopter, being a doctor, or stitching clothes together. Once you’ve done that, you have the passion you need.” -Danica Patrick
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“I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.” -Julie Andrews
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“A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.” -Tacitus
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“When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature – this very unique to Japan.” -Tadao Ando
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“Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration but the soldier’s occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.” -Rutherford B. Hayes
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“The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.” -Luc de Clapiers
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“I don’t stop. It’s my nature. People have to tell me to slow down. I plan on playing every role on Broadway. I want to do ‘Evita.’ I want to do ‘Sweeney Todd’ with Chris Colfer. We want to do ‘Wicked.’ I’ll be Elphaba and he wants to play ‘Guy-linda.’ I want to do movies,…
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“Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.” -Malcolm De Chazal
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“Every corny thing that’s said about living with nature – being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons – happens to be true.” -Susan Orlean
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“Nature’s music is never over her silences are pauses, not conclusions.” -Mary Webb
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“There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.” -Edouard Manet
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“The beautiful spring came and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.” -Harriet Ann Jacobs
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“It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.” -Robert Shea
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“You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.” -Edwin Louis Cole
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“Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn’t work.” -John Garamendi
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“The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.” -Johannes Kepler
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“We are more than just flesh and bones. There’s a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can’t measure. We can’t find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it’s there.” -Benjamin Carson
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“High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.” -Camille Paglia
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“God created the world the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don’t know what they’re talking about because they weren’t there. They can’t speculate about the origins of life because they weren’t…
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