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Nature Quotes
"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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"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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"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."
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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 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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"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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"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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"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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"Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites."
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"In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light."
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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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"I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in ming that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow."
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"For the state by its nature claims sovereignty, the right to an unlimited development of power, determined only by self-interest. It is by nature anarchistic."
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"Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo."
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"There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities."
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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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"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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"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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"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."
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"Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations."
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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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"Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves."
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"Law is born from despair of human nature."
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