977 private quotes tagged nature

“Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.” — Lewis Thomas

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“If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.” — Alex Noble

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“Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.” — Bodhidharma

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“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” — John Lubbock

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“Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.” — William Cowper

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“Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.” — Jonathan Swift

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“The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.” — Doug Coupland

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“Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.” — Edward Hopper

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“There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.” — Edward Hopper

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“The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature that is to say, of his own life.” — Thomas Hobbes

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“There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.” — Marguerite Moreau

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“Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.” — Christian Nestell Bovee

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“Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.” — Juvenal

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“In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.” — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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“I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.” — Paul Cezanne

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“Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.” — Michael J. Fox

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“We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.” — Paul Cezanne

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“The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.” — Pink

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“I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.” — Hamlin Garland

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“Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye, looking on, finds its own.” — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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“America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.” — Jerry Garcia

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“Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.” — Richard P. Feynman

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