977 private quotes tagged nature

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

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“It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.” — John Paul Jones

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“Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.” — Honore de Balzac

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“You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.” — Orison Swett Marden

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“I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.” — Jimi Hendrix

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“The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.” — Phillips Brooks

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“Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.” — E. O. Wilson

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“In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

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“Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.” — Margaret Cavendish

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“I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it.” — Clyde Tombaugh

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

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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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“'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'” — W. H. Auden

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“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.” — John D. Rockefeller

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“Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.” — Richard P. Feynman

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“Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.” — Max Beerbohm

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“The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.” — John Ruskin

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“The world is too much with us late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.” — William Wordsworth

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“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.” — Coco Chanel

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“An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.” — John Ruskin

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“Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave it is not in his nature.” — Laurence Sterne

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“Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.” — Titus Livius

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