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Nature Quotes

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

Heinrich Heine, German Poet

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"We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature."

Voltaire, French Writer

Nature, Errors, First, Law

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"There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport."

David Millar, British Athlete

Nature, Humannature, Will

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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."

Orrin Hatch, American Politician

Nature, Judges, May, Senators

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"It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt."

Tacitus, Roman Historian

Nature, Hate, Humannature, Hurt

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"Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees."

Richard Le Gallienne, English Poet

Nature, Work, Feet, Man

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"Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors."

Barry Cornwall, English Poet

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"In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion."

Carol P. Christ, American Educator

Nature, Religion, Ethics, Injustice

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"Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters."

Garry Kasparov, Azerbaijani Celebrity

Nature, Women, Chess

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"There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by."

William C. Bryant, American Poet

Nature, April, Eye, Glory, Joy

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"Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves."

Jean Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure."

Danielle Dax, English Musician

Nature, Time, People, Heroes

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"I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature."

Robin Day, British Journalist

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"Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear."

Karl Kraus, Austrian Writer

Nature, Crime, Humannature, Justice

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"Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond."

Titus Livius, Roman Historian

Nature, Pleasure, United

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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."

Orison Swett Marden, American Writer

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"Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Nature, Art, Truth, Conquest

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"We cannot command Nature except by obeying her."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating."

Karl Von Clausewitz, Prussian Soldier

Nature, Certainty, Clarity, Intellect

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"Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature."

Luther Burbank, American Environmentalist

Nature, Science, Truth, Knowledge

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"This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline."

Du Fu, Chinese Poet

Nature, Diet, Help, Support

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"Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose."

Cyril Connolly, English Journalist

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"We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways."

Clarence Day, American Author

Nature, Fact, First, Talk

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"Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later."

John Carmack, American Scientist

Nature, Law, Years

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"It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined."

Gilbert White, English Scientist

Nature, Variety, Zoology

"Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump."

Willard Van Orman Quine, American Philosopher

Nature, Physics, Psychology, World

"For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces."

Bridget Riley, British Artist

"Spring shows the power and love of the earth, she can grow magnificent flowers from the dirt."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Nature, Spring, Power, Love, Earth

"The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature."

Drew Endy, American Scientist

"The older view of the nature of heat was that it is a substance, very fine and imponderable indeed, but indestructible, and unchangeable in quantity, which is an essential fundamental property of all matter."

Hermann von Helmholtz, German Physicist

Nature, Property, Quantity

"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Nature, Feet, Heaven

"Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer."

John Keats, English Poet

Nature, Humannature

"Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste."

Thomas Edward Brown, British Poet

Nature, Art, Morality, Letters

"So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature."

Brent Scowcroft, American Public Servant

Nature, President

"It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Nature, Men, Artist, Literature

"There is a tendency for things to right themselves."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

"But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls."

Edwin Booth, American Actor

"Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star."

Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian Educator

Nature, Twilight

"It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them."

Eugene Wigner, American Physicist

Nature, Old, Problems

"No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems."

Arthur Erickson, Canadian Architect

Nature, Learning

"In the deep shivering winter, I can feel the joy of a dancing summer in my heart."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Nature, Winter, Summer, Joy, Seasons

"There was no wind in all that sweep of sky."

Frank Yerby, American Author

Nature, Sky, Wind

"Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Nature, Answers, Question, Resolution

"Sometimes I'll go by and there are a couple of swans, the next day it's a few ducks. I'd like to stop there every day for a year and capture how it changes, then put it all together to create an incredible image of a traditional English scene."

Graeme Le Saux, English Athlete

Nature, Day, Swans

"Is it difficult to recognize spring when the air is dancing with joy and the flowers are blooming bright colorful smiles?"

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Nature, Spring, Beauty

"But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

Nature, Truth, Liberty

"To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes."

Alex Campbell, Canadian Politician

"One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can."

William Wordsworth, English Poet

Nature, Evil, Man, May, Wood

"The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages."

Cyrano de Bergerac, French Playwright

Nature, Men, Apples, Arrogance

"Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature."

Thomas Kempis, German Writer

Nature, Earth, Man, Purity

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