977 private quotes tagged nature

“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.” — John Lubbock

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“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.” — Toni Morrison

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“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.” — William Wordsworth

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“Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.” — Orison Swett Marden

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“A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” — Lou Holtz

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“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.” — Anthony J. D'Angelo

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“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” — John Burroughs

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“It is not light that we need, but fire it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.” — Frederick Douglass

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“The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.” — Jean Giraudoux

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“There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.” — Alfred Austin

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“Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” — Hans Christian Anderson

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“Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.” — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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“I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.” — Jennifer Jason Leigh

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“The creative destruction that social media is currently unleashing will change more than technology or the leader board of the Fortune 100. It is driving a qualitative shift in the nature of relationships between brands and their customers.” — Simon Mainwaring

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“The poetry of the earth is never dead.” — John Keats

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“Winter is nature's way of saying, 'Up yours.'” — Robert Byrne

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“Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.” — Pope Paul VI

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“As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.” — Arnold J. Toynbee

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“Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.” — Anton Chekhov

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“A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.” — Hal Borland

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“When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.” — Barack Obama

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“Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.” — Nikita Khrushchev

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“I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.” — Lady Gaga

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“Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.” — Paul Ryan

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“It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'” — Marco Rubio

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