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Nature Quotes
"Contrary to popular belief, some animals would not have each chosen to be a human being, if they were given the choice between being what they are and being human."
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"Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects."
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"But at sunset the clouds gathered again, bringing an earlier night, and the snow began to fall straight and steadily from a sky without wind, in a soft universal diffusion more confusing than the gusts and eddies of the morning. It seemed to be a part of the thickening darkness, to be the winter night itself descending on us layer by layer."
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"What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!"
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"Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots."
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"So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature."
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"A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye, looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature."
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"We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard."
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"None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue."
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"Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers."
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"In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods."
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"Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed."
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"But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind."
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"People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely."
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"I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile."
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"Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree."
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"The Hudson's Bay Company has always been the guardian angel of the north."
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"Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play."
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"Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves."
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"Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it."
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"It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door."
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"Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity."
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"The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization."
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"There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil."
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"The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature."
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"Sharks are the lions of the sea.They glamorize the oceanic glory."
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"But human nature is not to be totally changed even by such a force as the Reformation."
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"There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century."
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"Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive."
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"Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature."
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