977 private quotes tagged nature

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

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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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“It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.” — Niels Bohr

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“A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.” — Francis Bacon

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

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“Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Nature is not human hearted.” — Lao Tzu

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“As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.” — Victor Hugo

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“It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.” — Yoko Ono

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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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