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Nature Quotes
"Trees, how many of 'em do we need to look at?"
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"Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much."
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"While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith."
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"Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed."
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"Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it."
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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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"Quartering the topmost branches of one of the tall trees, an invisible bird was striving to make the day seem shorter, exploring with a long-drawn note the solitude that pressed it on every side, but it received at once so unanimous an answer, so powerful a repercussion of silence and of immobility, that one felt it had arrested for all eternity the moment which it had been trying to make pass more quickly."
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"He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.."
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"I tilted my head back, breathing deeply. It was a clear, moonless night, and after those long months underground, the sight of all that sky was dizzying. And so many stars-a glittering, tangled mass that seemed close enough to touch. I let their light fall over me like a balm, grateful for the air in my lungs, the night all around me."
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"Let us give Nature a chance, she knows her business better than we do."
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"The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets."
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"Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny."
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"They sicken of the calm who know the storm."
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"Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing."
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"The wind has shifted to the East. A storm isn't far off. I can smell the moisture in the air, a fetid, living thing. Isolated drops fall, licking at my hands, my face, my dress. The quests squawk in surprise, turn their palms up to the sky as if questioning it, and dash for cover."
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"When you have mountains in the distance or even hills, you have space."
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"Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature."
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"Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing."
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"I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else."
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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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"Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance?"
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"Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of."
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"Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature."
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"You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy."
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"Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality."
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"Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature."
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"I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature."
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"We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things."
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"If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards."
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"Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges - challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation."
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"And Pearl, stepping in, mid-leg deep, beheld her own white feet at the bottom, while out of a still lower depth came the gleam of a kind of fragmentary smile, floating to and fro in the agitated water."
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