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Nature Quotes
"It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial."
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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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"Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves."
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"Law is born from despair of human nature."
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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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"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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"Then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago."
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"We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true."
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"It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can."
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"To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed."
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"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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"Swifts, on a fine morning in May, flying this way, that way, sailing around at a great hight, perfectly happily. Then, one leaps onto the back of another, grasps tightly and forgetting to fly they both sink down and down, in a great dying fall, fathom after fathom, until the female utters a loud, piercing cry of ecstasy."
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"A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation."
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"The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature."
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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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"Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature."
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"Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means."
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"Human nature is above all things lazy."
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"The grass must bend when the wind blows across it."
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"Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze."
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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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"I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused."
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"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."
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"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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"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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"It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest."
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