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Nature Quotes
"The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself."
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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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"The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature."
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"Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit."
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"A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature."
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"The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful."
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"Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature."
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"Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality."
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"I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals."
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"The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual."
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"A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind."
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"I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature."
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"I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature."
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"The state of slavery is in its own nature bad."
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"Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature."
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"You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing."
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"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea."
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"Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous."
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"The tasteof rain-- Why kneel?"
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"It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature."
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"Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time."
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"It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy."
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"I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment. There are many created things in the universe that outlive us, that outlive the sun, even, but I can't think about them. I live with trees. There are creatures under our feet, creatures that live over our heads, but trees live quite convincingly in the same filament of air we inhabit, and in addition, they extend impressively in both directions, up and down, shearing rock and fanning air, doing their real business just out of reach."
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"Everything from the humble woodlouse to specks of dust moving through a ray of sunlight. Each tells a story."
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"Les naturels sanguinaires à l'endroit des bêtes, témoignent une propension naturelle à la cruauté."
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"Do you think that a doe in the jaws of a tiger feels less horror than you? People thought up the idea that animals don't have the same capability for suffering as humans, because otherwise they couldn't bear the knowledge that they are surrounded by a world of nature that is horror and nothing but horror." Paul was pleased that man was gradually covering the whole earth with concrete. It was as if he were watching a cruel murderess being walled up."
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"Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion."
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"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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"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'"
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