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Nature Quotes
"It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least."
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"No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal."
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"Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end."
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"Spring is made of solid, fourteen-karat gratitude, the reward for the long wait. Every religious tradition from the northern hemisphere honors some form of April hallelujah, for this is the season of exquisite redemption, a slam-bang return to joy after a season of cold second thoughts."
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"The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race."
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"There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature."
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"Her hope was to preserve what she called The Way, to keep it alive, for that future moment when the current obsession with excess and hierarchy imploded. Wilma said many Native people believed that the earth as a living organism would just one day shrug off the human species that was destroying it-and start over. In a less cataclysmic vision, humans would realize that we are killing our home and each other, and seek out The Way. That's why Native people were guarding it."
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"We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information."
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"There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata, there is a thunder note in an angry sky."
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"How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!"
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"There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination."
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"Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices."
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"I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me."
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"So that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again..."
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"It was the love which the hunter has for living things, and which he can only express by aiming his gun at them ..."
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"I could not be a poet without the natural world. Someone else could. But not me. For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple."
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"Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher."
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"Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors."
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"For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations."
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"When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God."
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"I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations."
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"An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature."
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"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."
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"Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptiness."
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"One of the most secure markets in the world is human nature, few understand it, all have it."
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"Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains."
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"Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone."
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