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Nature Quotes
"Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature."
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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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"It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door."
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"The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued."
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"The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies."
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"It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes."
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"The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful."
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"To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature."
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"The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body."
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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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"How surely gravity's law,strong as an ocean current,takes hold of the smallest thingand pulls it toward the heart of the world.Each thing---each stone, blossom, child---is held in place.Only we, in our arrogance,push out beyond what we each belong tofor some empty freedom.If we surrenderedto earth's intelligencewe could rise up rooted, like trees.Instead we entangle ourselvesin knots of our own makingand struggle, lonely and confused.So like children, we begin againto learn from the things,because they are in God's heart;they have never left him.This is what the things can teach us:to fall,patiently to trust our heaviness.Even a bird has to do thatbefore he can fly."
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"Cats tell me without effort all that there is to know."
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"Lightning hides the colour of night."
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"Yet even so, Jon Snow was not sorry he had come. There were wonders here as well. He had seen sunlight flashing on icy thin waterfalls as they plunged over the lips of sheer stone cliffs, and a mountain meadow full of autumn wildflowers, blue coldsnaps and bright scarlet frostfires and stands of piper's grass in russet and gold. He had peered down ravines so deep and black they seemed certain to end in some hell, and he had ridden his garron over a wind-eaten bridge of natural stone with nothing but sky to either side. Eagles nested in the heights and came down to hunt the valleys, circling effortlessly on great blue-grey wings that seemed almost part of the sky."
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"A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye, looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature."
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"The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old."
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"Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations."
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"You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand."
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"The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system."
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"In the end, the world returns to a grain."
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"For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver."
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"For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations."
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"My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature."
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