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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature Quotes
Nature seen through curiosity, method, and connection.
Most of these quotes come from a scientific perspective, exploring how questioning and method shape what we understand as nature rather than treating it as something purely separate from us. For quotes that turn nature into short, shareable lines, see Captions.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- May
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To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
- Duck
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When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
- Beauty
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I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?
- Imagination
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But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
- Purpose
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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a sports fanatic. It's hard for me to commit to the weekly, episodic nature of television, so for me, anytime that I can put a game on, that's what I do.
- Liberty
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Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.
- Music
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I'm an underdog by nature, and I like to be fighting. I don't make music for myself. I make music to fight.
- Good
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