Quotes with nature

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  • A. R. Ammons In nature there are few sharp lines.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are only consequences.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • William Shakespeare In nature there's no blemish but the mind; none can be call'd deform'd but the unkind.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Alice Walker In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Alan Watts In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Bjork In Reykjavik, Iceland, where I was born, you are in the middle of nature surrounded by mountains and ocean. But you are still in a capital in Europe. So I have never understood why I have to choose between nature or urban.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Camille Paglia In the beginning was nature. The background from which and against our ideas of God were formed, nature remains the supreme moral problem. We cannot hope to understand sex and gender until we clarify our attitude toward nature. Sex is a subset to nature. Sex is the natural in man.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) Opening sentence, p. 1
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Carl Sagan In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 24 (p. 431)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Alexander Hamilton In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Carl Sagan In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 20 (p. 359)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Thomas Hobbes In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Joseph De Maistre In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Angela Davis Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.
    Women, Race, & Class (2011) 222
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Annie Dillard It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Thomas Malthus It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.
    An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) X, 29, 1-15
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • Tacitus It is a weakness of your human nature to hate those whom you have wronged.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Anne Brontë It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever.
    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. XXVII
    Anne Brontë
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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