977 private quotes tagged nature

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

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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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“My nature just changes.” — Jimi Hendrix

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

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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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“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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“Your nature is the Buddha.” — Bodhidharma

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“Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.” — Langston Hughes

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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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“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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“Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.” — Fran Lebowitz

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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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“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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“For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.” — Paul Cezanne

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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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“I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.” — Joan Jett

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