977 private quotes tagged nature

“Nature is the master of talents genius is the master of nature.” — J. G. Holland

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“The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.” — Cyrano de Bergerac

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“Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.” — William Ralph Inge

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“I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.” — David Attenborough

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“Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.” — Horace Walpole

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“The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.” — Johannes Kepler

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“It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.” — Sallust

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“We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.” — Benjamin Carson

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“Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.” — Robinson Jeffers

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“One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.” — Thor Heyerdahl

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“A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.” — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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“No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.” — Thomas Szasz

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“Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.” — Michael Faraday

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“All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.” — John Coltrane

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“I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.” — Regina Spektor

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“It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.” — David Hackworth

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“I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person that's the nature of the work I do.” — Joni Mitchell

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“A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!” — Henry Fielding

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“No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.” — Joni Mitchell

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“I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something I think that's human nature.” — David Duchovny

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“I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.” — Jacqueline Bisset

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“Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.” — Josef Albers

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“The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.” — Auguste Rodin

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“Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.” — David Duchovny

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“I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin.” — Matt LeBlanc

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