977 private quotes tagged nature

“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“My nature just changes.” — Jimi Hendrix

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

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

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“Painting from nature is not copying the object it is realizing one's sensations.” — Paul Cezanne

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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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“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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