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Nature Quotes


"They reached the summit of a shallow incline and were greeted with a surprising vista of bluebells that blanketed the forest floor. It was like stumbling into a dream, the cerulean haze seeping between the trunks of oak and beech and ash. The smell of bluebells was everywhere, the perfumed air feeling heavy and rich in her lungs.Pausing by a slender tree trunk, Annabelle curled her arm around it loosely and stared at the stands of bluebells with surprised pleasure. "Lovely," she murmured, her face gleaming in the shadow cast by the canopy of ancient, interlaced branches."Yes." But Hunt was looking at her, not the bluebells, and one glance at his expression caused the blood to tingle in her veins."



"Whatever goes into a salt-mine becomes salt."


"The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in the morning after its troublesome absence at night were noted by people around the world; these phenomena spoke to our ancestors of the possibility of surviving death. Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality."


"Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star."


"Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island."


"Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is."


"Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language."


"When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws."


"I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else."


"Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen."


"There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism."


"In the end, the world returns to a grain."


"But we ought to consider the natural form and shape of a horse, that we may work him according to nature."


"All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature."


"I imagine a lot of people tune in simply to watch reporters get bitch-slapped by Mother Nature, and frankly, who can blame them?"


"Due to the political nature of film, partisan film making, especially where the subject is close to the film makers hart, tend to be the norm, rather than the exception."


"In the state of nature profit is the measure of right."


"I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side."


"The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature."


"Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world."


"Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could."


"For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity."


"If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression."


"Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature."


"Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature."


"I see any production of any nature being good for the development of the whole industry."


"All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries."


"Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made helpless even to live."


"Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed."


"Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal."


"Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature."


"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."


"Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things."


"But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be."


"What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it?"
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