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Nature Quotes
"Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree."
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"Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer."
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"What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it."
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"Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates."
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"Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth."
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"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."
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"There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with."
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"And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man."
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"It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years."
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"It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination."
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"From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible."
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"I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature."
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"How is it you can talk so nicely?' Alice said, hoping to get it into a better temper by a compliment. 'I've been in many gardens before, but none of the flowers could talk.''Put your hand down, and feel the ground,' said the Tiger-lily. 'Then you'll know why.'Alice did so. 'It's very hard,' she said, 'but I don't see what that has to do with it.''In most gardens,' the Tiger-lily said, 'they make the beds too soft - so that the flowers are always asleep."
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"She had believed the land was her enemy and she struggled against it but you could not make war against a land any more than you could against the sea. One had to learn to live with it to belong to it to fit into its seasons and its ways."
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"I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses."
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"Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another."
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"I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip."
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"Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature."
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"In the sea, Corr's clumsiness will disappear, his weight cradled by the saltwater. I don't want to say good-bye. I blink to clear my vision and reach up. I pull off his halter. The ocean is his love and now, finally, he'll have it. I back out of the surf. There's a thin, long wail. Corr takes a labored step away from the November sea. And another. He is slow, and the sea sings to us both, but he returns to me."
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"I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God."
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"The wind picked up, shaking the trees below. She had the sense of being in the country. In the country, if a woman could not face her children, or her friends, or her family " if she were covered in shame " she would probably only need to lay herself down in a field and take her leave by merging, first with the grass underneath her, then with the mulch under that. A city child, Natalie Blake had always been naive about country matters. Still, when it came to the city, she was not mistaken. Here nothing less than a break " a sudden and total rupture " would do."
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"The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody."
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"We were right to come here, if only because the ocean reminded you that impossible things were possible. Miles and miles of the deepest waters that moved like clockwork were possible. Creatures like jellyfish and sea urchins were, too. Millions and jillions of the tiniest grains of sand to form one long, soft beach - yep, even that was possible."
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"But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations."
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"Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature."
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"I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations."
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"Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity."
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"The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature."
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"There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac hue, for the sun had not yet fully set; a robin was singing ... The leaves were more gorgeous than ever; the first touch of frost would lay them all low to the ground. Already one or two kept constantly floating down, amber and golden in the low slanting sun-rays."
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