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For me nature is not a landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces - an event rather than an appearance.
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For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.
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For what is more glorious than music, which modulates the heavenly system with its sonorous sweetness, and binds together with its virtue the concord of nature which is scattered everywhere?
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Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
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Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.
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Freud says, Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling. Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.
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From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
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Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice.
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General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.
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Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
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God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.
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Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
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Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.
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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
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Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.
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Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
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Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
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Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people.
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Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
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