977 private quotes tagged nature

“Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.” — Charles Darwin

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“Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.” — Jacob Bronowski

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“A bird perched on a branch is never afraid of the branch breaking. Her trust is in her wings.”

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“The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.” — Euclid

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“There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.” — Bob Ross

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“Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Nature abhors annihilation.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.” — Stanislaw Lec

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“It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” — William Shakespeare

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“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.” — Dale Carnegie

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“Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Nature never breaks her own laws.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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“Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.” — Francis Bacon

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“We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.” — Albert Einstein

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“Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.” — Alexander Pope

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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

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“Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.” — John Muir

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“If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.” — Kurt Vonnegut

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“Nature is wont to hide herself.” — Heraclitus

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“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.” — Socrates

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