977 private quotes tagged nature

“No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.” — Arthur Erickson

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“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.” — Alexander Hamilton

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“In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.” — Alexander Hamilton

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“Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.” — Edward Thorndike

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“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.” — Mary Wollstonecraft

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“The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.” — Jacques Yves Cousteau

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“I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.” — Georgia O'Keeffe

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“The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.” — Zora Neale Hurston

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“What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.” — Georg C. Lichtenberg

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“There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination.” — Denis Diderot

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“Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.” — William Wordsworth

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“It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.” — Carrot Top

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“The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.” — Samuel Adams

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“I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.” — Pat Buckley

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“My nature just changes.” — Jimi Hendrix

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“There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.” — Harry Crews

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“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.” — Alice Walker

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“I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.” — Joyce Kilmer

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“Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.” — William Wordsworth

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“Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.” — Margaret Mead

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“I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.” — Neil Armstrong

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“Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.” — Aleister Crowley

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“Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.” — Charles Dickens

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“Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.” — David Seabury

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