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Nature Quotes
"A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation."
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"I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow."
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"For the state by its nature claims sovereignty, the right to an unlimited development of power, determined only by self-interest. It is by nature anarchistic."
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"You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back."
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"Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction."
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"Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language."
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"The development of a rational view of the nature of catalysis was thus absolutely dependent on the creation of the concept of the rate of chemical reaction."
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"In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light."
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"The grass must bend when the wind blows across it."
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"There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea."
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"The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature."
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"Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty."
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"Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump."
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"To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes."
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"I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess."
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"There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature."
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"Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature."
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"There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities."
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"I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed."
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"The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur."
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"Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal."
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"If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law."
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"Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher."
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"If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you."
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"All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature."
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"Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature."
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"Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long."
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"Law is born from despair of human nature."
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