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Nature Quotes
"Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil."
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"Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves."
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"It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature."
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"Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing."
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"All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable."
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"To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature."
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"My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained."
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"The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce."
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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."
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"One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly."
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"It was a place as blank as a sheet of paper. It was the place I had always been looking for... Flat expanses would call to me... These are the places where the desert is most itself: stark, open, free, an invitation to wander, a laboratory of perception, scale, light, a place where loneliness has a luxurious flavor..."
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"No orchard's the worse for the wintriest storm;But one thing about it, it mustn't get warm."How often already you've had to be told,Keep cold, young orchard. Good-bye and keep cold.Dread fifty above more than fifty below."I have to be gone for a season or so."
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"Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic."
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"It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling."
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"It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspiciousof swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountainclimbers."
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"Everything from the humble woodlouse to specks of dust moving through a ray of sunlight. Each tells a story."
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"None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature."
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"If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law."
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"If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way."
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"Nature can counsel nothing but crime."
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"Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock. A man toting a sack of blood manure across his lawn is kin to Atlas letting the world spin easy on his shoulder."
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"Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another."
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"In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness."
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"But at sunset the clouds gathered again, bringing an earlier night, and the snow began to fall straight and steadily from a sky without wind, in a soft universal diffusion more confusing than the gusts and eddies of the morning. It seemed to be a part of the thickening darkness, to be the winter night itself descending on us layer by layer."
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"What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!"
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