Quotes with nature

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  • Graham Swift All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.
    Graham Swift
    English writer (1949 - )
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  • Carl Hiaasen All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Ovid All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Robert Collier All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Marquis de Sade All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Ben Jonson Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back;
    And is a swelling, and the last affection
    A high mind can put off; being both a rebel
    Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth
    All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion,
    and offereth violence to nature's self.
    Catiline His Conspiracy
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • John Ruskin An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Hortense Calisher An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.
    Hortense Calisher
    American writer (1911 - 2009)
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  • Washington Irving An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Adam Weishaupt And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Samuel Johnson And then, Sir, there is this consideration, that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Lewis Carroll And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Barnett Newman Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
    Barnett Newman
    American artist (1905 - 1970)
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  • Oscar Wilde Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
    The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Primo Levi Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
    Primo Levi
    Italian chemist, author (1919 - 1987)
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  • Susan Sontag Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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