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Nature Quotes
"The tasteof rain-- Why kneel?"
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"Perhaps the central question about [Eliot] Porter's work is about the relationship between science, aesthetics, and environmental politics. His brother, the painter and critic Fairfield Porter, wrote in a 1960 review of [Porter's] colour photographs: 'There is no subject and background, every corner is alive,' and this suggests what an ecological aesthetic might look like."
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"I came away from the forums with a profound concern about the highly addictive and destructive nature of methamphetamine. Families are torn apart, lives are destroyed and treatment is difficult to get."
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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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"Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow."
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"It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion."
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"Outside the rain finally began to fall, surging in fits and starts. "I love the way it rains here, he told her. "It reminds me that some forces of nature can never be entirely subdued. They are eternal, which is a far better thing to be than immortal."
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"There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience."
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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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"When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished."
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"Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable."
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"Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches."
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"The wind is made of haunting souls that moan and groan in whistles and whispers. This ghostly choir chills the breeze and orchestrates a rise of goose bumps on my skin."
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"Contrary to popular belief, some animals would not have each chosen to be a human being, if they were given the choice between being what they are and being human."
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"Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction."
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"Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star."
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"Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is."
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"I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature."
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"An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain."
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"If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you."
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"Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured."
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"I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid."
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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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"No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies."
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"We had a certain kind of really big prestige among, I suppose not just intellectual folk, but a sort of nice middle class intelligent folk of a very urban nature."
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"No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real, and it comes from the very nature of what judges do."
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"The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check."
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"Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs."
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"The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master."
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"The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper's landing, opposite another island."
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