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Nature Quotes
"For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces."
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"But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls."
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"Meanwhile, spring came, and with it the outpourings of Nature. The hills were soon splashed with wild flowers; the grass became an altogether new and richer shade of green; and the air became scented with fresh and surprising smells -- of jasmine, honeysuckle, and lavender."
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"The Sun is never alone as the light remains with him always. Even when he goes down sinking...sinking, the light drowns with him."
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"I HIDE myself within my flowerThat wearing on your breast,You, unsuspecting, wear me too-And angels know the rest.I hide myself within my flower,That, fading from your vase,You, unsuspecting, feel for meAlmost a loneliness..."
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"The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute."
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"Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands."
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"No departure from the truth of nature shall be discovered by the closest scrutiny."
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"I loafe and invite my soul I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass."
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"Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it."
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"Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover. Like smoke from an unseen fire, a line of fire just below the horizon, brushfire or a burning city. Maybe night falls because it's heavy, a thick curtain pulled up over the eyes. Wool blanket."
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"Would you like to hear about the fascinating things lizards can do if you chew off their tails?"
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"Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human."
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"Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever."
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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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"Wildness is the preservation of the World."
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"Just as it is certain that one leaf is never totally the same as another, so it is certain that the concept "leaf" is formed by arbitrarily discarding these individual differences and by forgetting the distinguishing aspects. This awakens the idea that, in addition to the leaves, there exists in nature the "leaf": the original model according to which all the leaves were perhaps woven, sketched, measured, colored, curled, and painted--but by incompetent hands, so that no specimen has turned out to be a correct, trustworthy, and faithful likeness of the original model."
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"I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being."
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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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"Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things."
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"I am forever walking upon these shores,Betwixt the sand and the foam,The high tide will erase my food prints,And the wind will blow away the foam,But the sea and the shore will remain forever."
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"Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need."
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"Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always."
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"Up in the distance the whistle of the wind sang to her from the mountain. From Lucian's mountain. It beckoned and taunted and she wanted to run towards it. To be enveloped in its coat of fleece and to hear its safe sounds."
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"All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things."
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"Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him."
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"I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by the nature of the beast, interested in other cultures, of which other nations on Earth are the closest available example."
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"The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure."
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