977 private quotes tagged nature

“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.” — Alexander Pope

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“Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.” — Alexander Pope

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“Water is the driving force of all nature.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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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

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“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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“He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.” — Aristotle

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“Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.” — Napoleon Hill

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“Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.” — Alexander Pope

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“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.” — H. G. Wells

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“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.” — Marshall McLuhan

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“Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!” — Alexander Pope

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“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” — Lao Tzu

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“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.” — Aristotle

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“We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.” — Albert Einstein

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“We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.” — Albert Einstein

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“Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.” — Albert Einstein

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“A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.” — William Shakespeare

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“A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.” — Alexander Pope

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“For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.” — Aristotle

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“Nature hates calculators.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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