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Robin Williams
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Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"
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Robert Byrne
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Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours."
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John F. Kennedy
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I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome
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Charles Lindbergh
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How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like q
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John Muir
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We all travel the milky way together, trees and men... trees are travellers, in the ordinary sense. They make journeys, not very extensive ones, it is true: but our own little comes and goes are only little more than tree-wavings - many of them not so muc
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John Muir
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The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round
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Carl Sandburg
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And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wh
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William Shakespeare
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Muriel Spark
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It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a
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Henry David Thoreau
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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and en
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Francis Bacon
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This is the foundation of all. We are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.
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Rachel Carson
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???For all at last returns to the sea - to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the everflowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.???
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Leonardo DaVinci
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Although human subtlety makes a variety of inventions by different means to the same end, it will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple, or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superflu
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I am taught the poorness of our invention, the ugliness of towns and palaces. Art and luxury have early learned that they must work as enhancement and sequel to this original beauty. I am over instructed for my return. Henceforth I shall be hard to please
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Henry David Thoreau
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The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which surrounds them, more than to the gardens of men. There is something indescribably inspiriting and beautiful in the aspect of the fo
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John Greenleaf Whittier
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But beauty seen is never lost,
God???s colors all are fast;
The glory of this sunset heaven
Into my soul has passed???..
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Andrew Wyeth
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I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.
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William Wordsworth
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Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.
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Robin Williams
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Spring is nature's way of saying, Let's party!
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Tennessee Williams
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Thornton Wilder
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The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
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Walt Whitman
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You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.
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Walt Whitman
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
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Walt Whitman
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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
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Walt Whitman
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
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Steven Weinberg
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Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.
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Alice Walker
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
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Loudon Wainwright
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The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.
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Elizabeth Gray Vining
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Fragments came floating into his mind like bits of wood drifting down a stream, and he fished them out and fitted them together.
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Mao Tse-Tung
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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
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Henry David Thoreau
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Henry David Thoreau
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I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
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Henry David Thoreau
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The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
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Henry David Thoreau
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Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
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Henry David Thoreau
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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
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Henry David Thoreau
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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Gwyn Thomas
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Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready for the seed, you are never again going to be fully happy about the cities and towns that man carries like a crippling weight upon his back.
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George Thoma
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Grass grows by inches but it's killed by feet.
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Sara Teasdale
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Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.
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Rabindranath Tagore
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
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Ruth Stout
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There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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Gil Stern
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Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.
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Kevin Starr
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A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.
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Muriel Spark
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It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky.
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Ikkyu Sojun
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Only one koan matters - you.
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Ikkyu Sojun
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Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
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Logan P. Smith
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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
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William Shakespeare
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Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
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Lao Tzu
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion Let nature take its course. By letting each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to be done gets done.
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Jeff Melvoin
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You think Nature is some Disney movie Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain.
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Sydney Smith
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Whatever you are by nature, keep to it never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.
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Francis Bacon
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Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
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W. Somerset Maugham
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The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.
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Philip Jose Farmer
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Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.
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Philip James Bailey
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Art is a man's nature nature is God's art.
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George E. Woodbury
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Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does it is one of the sensible things that nature does.
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Margaret Thatcher
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Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent...Be what Nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
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Henrik Ibsen
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Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, and the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Lao Tzu
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Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything. Without going beyond his own nature, one can achieve ultimate wisdom. Therefore, the intelligent man knows all he needs to know without going away, And sees all he needs to see without looking elsewhere, And does all he needs to do wihout undue exertion.
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Galileo Galilei
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It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that eve
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Marquis de Vauvenargues
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It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its sovereign law is subordination and dependence.
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Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom only in men's souls.
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B. F. Skinner
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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 their subject matters.
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Samuel Smiles
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The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former.
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Robin Green
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Dr. Joel Fleischman in nature. Not exactly the man you knew. He couldn't see past the Hudson River if he tried. He liked his fish smoked or preferable hand sliced from Zabars on a sliced bagel served with onions. Nature, to him, was an irritant. Birds didn't sing, they woke him up. A body of water wasn't life, it was a golf hazard..
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Saint Augustin
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He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.
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Woody Allen
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I am two with nature.
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Alan Bleasdale
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Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
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Juvenal
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Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.
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Democritus
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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Charles Churchill
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It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.
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R. J. Baughan
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Nature does not give to those who will not spend.
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Legouve
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A brother is a friend given by Nature.
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Honore' de Balzac
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What is art Nature concentrated.
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Juvenal
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Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
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Albert Einstein
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
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Confucius
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By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart.
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Francis Bacon
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We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
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Boe Lightman
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Nature loves a burst of energy.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Stanislaw Lec
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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
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Francis Bacon
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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A man is related to all nature.
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Margaret Fuller
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Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
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Thomas Browne
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All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
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Vincent Van Gogh
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Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
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Franois Auguste Ren Rodin
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To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
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Marc Chagall
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Great art picks up where nature ends.
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William Wordsworth
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Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.
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Paul Jones
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It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, That those who will not risk cannot win.
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James A. Autry
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I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance.
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Emily Dickinson
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How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
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Gerard De Nerval
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Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
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Belgian Proverb
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Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.
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John Muir
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In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Tacitus
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Albert Einstein
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We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
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William Hazlitt
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We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
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Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her o
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Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.
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Nature abhors a vacuum. When a head lacks brains, nature fills it with conceit.
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Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.
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Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.
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We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
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Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
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You dehumanize a man as much by returning him to nature - by making him one with rocks, vegetation, and animals - as by turning him into a machine. Both the natural and the mechanical are the opposite of that which is uniquely human. Nature is a self-made
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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.
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It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its soverign law is subordination and dependence.
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I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.
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"Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself."
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Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
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Sex is part of nature, I go with nature.
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Nature does nothing uselessly.
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All art is an imitation of nature.
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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Nature hates calculators.
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
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Nature does not proceed by leaps.
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Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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Human nature is not of itself vicious.
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Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Man is by nature a political animal.
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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Nature is wont to hide herself.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Mother Nature is a bitch.
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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
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Nature made him, and then broke the mold.
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By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
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We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
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Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
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It is human nature to hate him whom you have injured.
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Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
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In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - there are consequences.
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Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
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Human reason is by nature architectonic.
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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
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Cats teach that not everything in nature has a function.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.
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