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Nature Quotes
"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."
61
"There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities."
61
"Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price."
60
"Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites."
60
"When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd And the great star early droop'd in the western sky the night I mourn'd - and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring."
60
"Look deep deep into nature and then you will understand everything better."
60
"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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"Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo."
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"Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction."
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"Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature."
58
"Not hammer strokes but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection."
58
"My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made."
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"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."
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"Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back as some creeks will. The creeks are the world with all its stimulus and beauty; I live there. But the mountains are home."
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"Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed."
56
"The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature."
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"Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself."
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"In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature."
56
"Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man."
56
"Part of a moon was falling down the west,Dragging the whole sky with it to the hills.Its light poured softly in her lap. She sawAnd spread her apron to it. She put out her handAmong the harp-like morning-glory strings,Taut with the dew from garden bed to eaves,As if she played unheard the tendernessThat wrought on him beside her in the night."
56
"Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy."
56
"There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea."
56
"The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as she is and she doesn't need to be rescued, improved, or saved."
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"I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in ming that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow."
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"To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind."
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