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Nature Quotes


"Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen."


"The state of slavery is in its own nature bad."


"I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else."


"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation."


"Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived."


"He always thought of the sea as 'la mar' which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman. Some of the younger fishermen, those who used buoys as floats for their lines and had motorboats, bought when the shark livers had brought much money, spoke of her as 'el mar' which is masculine.They spoke of her as a contestant or a place or even an enemy. But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favours, and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them. The moon affects her as it does a woman, he thought."


"In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light."


"I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated."


"Everything from the humble woodlouse to specks of dust moving through a ray of sunlight. Each tells a story."


"Sun is a hearthstone, a merry-go-round of extinguished hearthstones."


"Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything."


"Take a break to listen to the song of the wind, talk to the whispering trees, feel the love of flowers, dance with the dancing leaves, and enjoy the tranquility and serenity of nature."


"Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable."


"A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation."


"Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump."


"Get close to grass and you'll see a star."


"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."



"The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself."


"If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you."


"It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person."


"God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech."


"When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising."


"If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment."


"Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature."


"It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door."


"Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown."
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