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Nature Quotes
"For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy."
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"How surely gravity's law,strong as an ocean current,takes hold of the smallest thingand pulls it toward the heart of the world.Each thing---each stone, blossom, child---is held in place.Only we, in our arrogance,push out beyond what we each belong tofor some empty freedom.If we surrenderedto earth's intelligencewe could rise up rooted, like trees.Instead we entangle ourselvesin knots of our own makingand struggle, lonely and confused.So like children, we begin againto learn from the things,because they are in God's heart;they have never left him.This is what the things can teach us:to fall,patiently to trust our heaviness.Even a bird has to do thatbefore he can fly."
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"The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious."
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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."
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"Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry."
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"No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments."
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"Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason."
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"I believe that when people have an occupation that allows them to provide for their families, the social dimension of human nature will emerge instinctively and lead people to help and organize others less privileged."
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"It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial."
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"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."
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"Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness."
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"Trees exhale for us so that we can inhale them to stay alive. Can we ever forget that? Let us love trees with every breath we take until we perish."
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"Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this."
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"The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."
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"Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price."
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"Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves."
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"Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites."
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"It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can."
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"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."
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"The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system."
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"Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime."
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"My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made."
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"To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind."
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"We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true."
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"Our object in these remarks has been not only to account for the slow progress which has as yet been made by Political Economy, and to suggest means by which its advancement may be accelerated, but also to warn the reader of the nature of the following Treatise."
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