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Nature Quotes
"Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature."
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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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"Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature."
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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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"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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"Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature."
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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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"The grass must bend when the wind blows across it."
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"Then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago."
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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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"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."
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"The development of a rational view of the nature of catalysis was thus absolutely dependent on the creation of the concept of the rate of chemical reaction."
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"Les naturels sanguinaires à l'endroit des bêtes, témoignent une propension naturelle à la cruauté."
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"Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze."
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"The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."
64
"This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. From the western half of the sky the sun was shying little golden disks at the sea--if you gazed intently enough you could see them skip from wave tip to wave tip until they joined a broad collar of golden coin that was collecting half a mile out and would eventually be a dazzling sunset."
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"Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations."
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"Law is born from despair of human nature."
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"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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"I am so grateful to be here on this awesome planet with it's diverse life - everything we need to not just survive but to thrive. I am excited to continually learn more about it, and always curious to see what is going to come up next."
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"Nature to be commanded must be obeyed."
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"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."
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"Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen."
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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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