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Nature Quotes


"The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system."


"Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass."


"How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!"


"Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well."


"Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors."


"Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language."


"Have an appreciating eye to enjoy the beauty of sky."


"Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles."


"Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands."


"Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry."


"Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself."


"Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures."


"It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual."


"Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive."


"The world's greatest classroom has no walls: nature."


"In trees, monkeys rule; on land, lions rule; in the sky, eagles rule; in the waters, whales rule."


"When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws."


"I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else."


"Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature."


"The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill."


"To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature."


"The solution to a problem changes the nature of the problem."


"Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation."


"There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature."


"Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly."
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