977 private quotes tagged nature

“Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.” — Victor Hugo

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“All men by nature desire knowledge.” — Aristotle

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“For greed all nature is too little.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.” — Tennessee Williams

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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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“Nature is not human hearted.” — Lao Tzu

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“As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.” — Lord Byron

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“To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.” — Franz Liszt

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“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.” — Anne Frank

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“What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!” — Charles Darwin

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“In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.” — Leo Buscaglia

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“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.” — Carl Reiner

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“You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.” — Joel Osteen

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“Everything is blooming most recklessly if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

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“Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.” — Albert Schweitzer

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“By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.” — Thomas Merton

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“Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it to work around it.” — Donna Leon

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“The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.” — Galileo Galilei

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“God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.” — Marcus Garvey

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“Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?” — Rose Kennedy

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“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.” — Mother Teresa

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“It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.” — Elvis Presley

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