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Nature Quotes
"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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"The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone."
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"Take my handand, feel the sandbeneath your aimless feettowards the sparkling waves."
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"I had seen the flowers on her dress beside the canals in the north, she was indigenous like a herb, and I never wanted to go home."
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"The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul."
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"It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code."
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"So that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again..."
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"Let us give future generations the gift of Earth citizenship by first giving it to ourselves."
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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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"Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things."
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"I'm inspired by nature. Other artist's work is important for developing my perception."
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"All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws."
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"All men are by nature born equally free and independent."
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"Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass."
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"Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors."
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"The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself."
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"I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different."
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"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation."
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"String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string."
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"When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God."
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"I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide."
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"Quartering the topmost branches of one of the tall trees, an invisible bird was striving to make the day seem shorter, exploring with a long-drawn note the solitude that pressed it on every side, but it received at once so unanimous an answer, so powerful a repercussion of silence and of immobility, that one felt it had arrested for all eternity the moment which it had been trying to make pass more quickly."
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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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"When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising."
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"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences."
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"Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency."
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"Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered."
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"Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals."
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"One of the most secure markets in the world is human nature, few understand it, all have it."
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"To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people."
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"Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains."
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