977 private quotes tagged nature

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

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“In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.” — H. P. Blavatsky

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“I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.” — Neil Young

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“Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.” — Arthur Conan Doyle

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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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“If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.” — Fran Lebowitz

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“The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.” — Thomas Huxley

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“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.” — Thomas Huxley

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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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“There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.” — John Keats

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“Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.” — John Keats

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“Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.” — Henry Miller

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“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.” — Richard P. Feynman

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“Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.” — Calvin Coolidge

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

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“We must return to nature and nature's god.” — Luther Burbank

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“Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.” — Salvador Dali

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“We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.” — Clarence Day

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“There are unknown forces in nature when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.” — Auguste Rodin

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“People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.” — Henry Cantwell Wallace

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“They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.” — Jane Austen

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“Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.” — Steven Weinberg

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