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Nature Quotes
"Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds."
"Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island."
"To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice."
"As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature."
"I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess."
"Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses."
"No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious."
"We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard."
"The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old."
"None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue."
"Get lost in the beauty and tranquility of nature to find your true self again and again."
"Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations."
"Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher."
"Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is."
"It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil."
"I'm inspired by nature. Other artist's work is important for developing my perception."
"Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job."
"You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand."
"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."
"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."
"Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection."
"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."
"What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat."
"Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers."
"All men are by nature born equally free and independent."
"In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods."
"Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind."
"The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute."
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