977 private quotes tagged nature

“What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.” — Jacques Yves Cousteau

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“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.” — Garrison Keillor

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“England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.” — E. M. Forster

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“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.” — Marie Curie

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“Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.” — Galileo Galilei

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“Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.” — Arthur Keith

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“You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.” — Horace

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“Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.” — Desiderius Erasmus

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“The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.” — Helen Garner

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“Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.” — Joseph Conrad

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“Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.” — Helen Rowland

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“Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.” — Jane Austen

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“Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.” — Thomas Huxley

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“Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.” — Al Gore

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“The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.” — Reinhold Niebuhr

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“To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.” — Auguste Rodin

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“I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.” — Gary Chapman

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“If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.” — Thomas Huxley

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“My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.” — Edward Hopper

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“To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.” — Auguste Rodin

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“Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.” — Xun Zi

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“The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.” — William Hazlitt

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“It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.” — Christopher Morley

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“I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.” — Henry Rollins

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