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Nature Quotes


"Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature."


"Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow."


"Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it."


"In the end, we are part of this region, and we are affected by its developments. What we may do or not do in the future depends on the nature of what happens here in the region."


"Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!"


"Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself."


"I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature."


"It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self."


"To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality."


"The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them."


"There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain."


"One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls."


"The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious."


"Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil."


"No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments."


"It's to surprise people about something that is extremely well known. I mean human reproduction, the human body, nature and so on. To surprise them with a new technique."


"Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature."


"There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature."


"Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites."


"The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration."


"It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line."


"We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step."


"Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him."


"In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light."


"It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole."


"No departure from the truth of nature shall be discovered by the closest scrutiny."


"Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony."


"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."


"The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly."


"I believe that when people have an occupation that allows them to provide for their families, the social dimension of human nature will emerge instinctively and lead people to help and organize others less privileged."


"Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us."


"Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means."
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