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

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

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“Nature abhors annihilation.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” — Albert Camus

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“In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.” — Alan Watts

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

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“Nature is wont to hide herself.” — Heraclitus

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