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Nature Quotes

"Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away."

"Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away."

Matthew Arnold, English Poet

Nature, Control, Man, Mind

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"Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant."

"Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Nature, Nothing, Stupidity

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"The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics."

"The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics."

Elihu Root, American Lawyer

Nature, Peace, War, Departure

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"Weaving spiders, come not here, Hence, you long legged spinners, hence! Beetles black, approach not here, worm nor snail, do no offense."

"Weaving spiders, come not here, Hence, you long legged spinners, hence! Beetles black, approach not here, worm nor snail, do no offense."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Nature, Warning, Wisdom, Life

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"Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature."

"Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature."

Edward Thorndike, American Psychologist

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"Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little."

"Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Nature, Power, Women, Law

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"Marvellous!" he repeated, looking up at me. "Look! The beauty--but that is nothing--look at the accuracy, the harmony. And so fragile! And so strong! And so exact! This is Nature--the balance of colossal forces. Every star is so--and every blade of grass stands so--and the mighty Kosmos il perfect equilibrium produces--this. This wonder; this masterpiece of Nature--the great artist."

"Marvellous!" he repeated, looking up at me. "Look! The beauty--but that is nothing--look at the accuracy, the harmony. And so fragile! And so strong! And so exact! This is Nature--the balance of colossal forces. Every star is so--and every blade of grass stands so--and the mighty Kosmos il perfect equilibrium produces--this. This wonder; this masterpiece of Nature--the great artist."

Joseph Conrad, Polish Novelist

Nature, Beauty, Harmony, Perfection

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"The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte."

"The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte."

Vera Nazarian, American Writer

Nature, Responsibility, Action, Care, Observation

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"Take my handand, feel the sandbeneath your aimless feettowards the sparkling waves."

"Take my handand, feel the sandbeneath your aimless feettowards the sparkling waves."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Nature, Heart, Feeling, Emotion

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"The virus altered the the eye of the beholder. That this change came at the expense of the beheld suggests that beauty in nature does not necessarily bespeak health, nor necessarily redound to the benefit of the beautiful."

"The virus altered the the eye of the beholder. That this change came at the expense of the beheld suggests that beauty in nature does not necessarily bespeak health, nor necessarily redound to the benefit of the beautiful."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

Nature, Beauty, Observation, Perception

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"She sighed, she snored, not that she was asleep, only drowsy and heavy, drowsy and heavy, like a field of clover in the sunshine this hot July day, with the bees going round and about and the yellow butterflies."

"She sighed, she snored, not that she was asleep, only drowsy and heavy, drowsy and heavy, like a field of clover in the sunshine this hot July day, with the bees going round and about and the yellow butterflies."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Nature, Sunshine, Insects, Stillness

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"Lightning hides the colour of night."

"Lightning hides the colour of night."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Nature, Night, Mystery, Darkness

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"Humans are part of nature, and nature is one great big wood chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones, and hair."

"Humans are part of nature, and nature is one great big wood chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones, and hair."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Nature, Life, Death, Reality

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"Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean."

"Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean."

Syd Barrett, English Musician

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"Their color slowly faded from out of the flowers, but their scent lingered to honey the air he breathed."

"Their color slowly faded from out of the flowers, but their scent lingered to honey the air he breathed."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Nature, Beauty, Memory, Emotion

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"It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing."

"It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing."

Marianne Moore, American Poet

Nature, Humannature

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"Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being."

"Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Nature, Being, Man, Vices

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"Nature itself, is the best medicine prescription, for our whole being."

"Nature itself, is the best medicine prescription, for our whole being."

Angie karan, British Author

Nature, Healing, Wellness, Observation

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"For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces."

"For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces."

Bridget Riley, British Artist

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"One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can."

"One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can."

William Wordsworth, English Poet

Nature, Evil, Man, May, Wood

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"We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them."

"We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them."

Meriwether Lewis, American Explorer

Nature, Geese, Numbers

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"Nature has different times."

"Nature has different times."

Michael Tippett, English Composer

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"Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly."

"Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly."

Quintilian, Roman Educator

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"I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach."

"I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach."

Rebecca Miller, American Director

Nature, Art, Beach, Beer

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"Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being."

"Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being."

Christopher Dawson, English Writer

Nature, Being, Culture, Divinity

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

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

Anderson Cooper, American Journalist

Nature, Mother, People, Blame

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"Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body."

"Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body."

Susan Griffin, American Writer

Nature, Society, Death, Life

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"I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed."

"I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed."

Jerome K. Jerome, English Author

Nature, Men, Want

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"God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech."

"God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech."

Marcus Fabius Quintilian, Roman Philosopher

Nature, God, Character, Animals

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"Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature."

"Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature."

Evangelista Torricelli, Italian Scientist

Nature, Difficulty

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

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

Robert Smithson, American Artist

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"Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit."

"Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit."

James Payn, English Novelist

Nature, Pursuit

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"The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is."

"The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is."

Phillips Brooks, American Clergyman

Nature, Greatness, Will

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"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."

Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect

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"Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development."

"Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development."

Robert Smithson, American Artist

Nature, Development

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"Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice."

"Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice."

Elihu Root, American Lawyer

Nature, Control, Ambition, Generations

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"To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano."

"To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano."

James Whistler, American Artist

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"When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography."

"When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography."

Graeme Le Saux, English Athlete

Nature, Photography, Sea, Seasons, Weather

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"We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing."

"We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing."

Harold Ramis, American Actor

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"Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes."

"Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes."

George Mason, American Statesman

Nature, Idea, Dignity, Man

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"Fellini belongs to nature."

"Fellini belongs to nature."

Roberto Benigni, Italian Actor

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"I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots."

"I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots."

Isak Dinesen, Danish Writer

Nature, Abundance, Ants, Evil

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"The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels."

"The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels."

Rupert Sheldrake, British Scientist

Nature, Idea, Being, Living

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"Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees."

"Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees."

Richard Le Gallienne, English Poet

Nature, Work, Feet, Man

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"I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream."

"I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream."

Neil Armstrong, American Astronaut

Nature, Soul, Being, Deep

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"The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful."

"The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful."

Chaka Fattah, American Politician

Nature, Americans

36

"Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate."

"Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate."

Peter D. Mitchell, British Scientist

Nature, Time, Lonely, May

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"We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later."

"We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later."

Louis Aragon, French Poet

Nature, Genius, Ideas, Idiots

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"I want my children to live in the country, to be a part of nature."

"I want my children to live in the country, to be a part of nature."

Kent McCord, American Actor

Nature, Children, Country, Want

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"When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of the those things where you have to play yourself out of it."

"When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of the those things where you have to play yourself out of it."

Mark Messier, Canadian Athlete

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