- Creeds
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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
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as a son, to be a son of man, must be of the same nature and spirit of his father; so with the sons of God, and so it will be with all who are born of the spirit of God.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
To a synthetic chemist, the complex molecules of nature are as beautiful as any of her other creations. The perception of that beauty depends on the understanding of chemical structures and their transformations, and, as with a treasured work of art, deepens as the subject is studied, perhaps even to a level approaching romance.
- Human Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the ancient world and, above all, among the Greeks, human nature was held in high esteem.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Greek conception of a life in harmony with nature found its most complete development in the rationalism of the Renaissance and of the centuries that followed it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are always trying to figure me out, given the varied nature of my films and shows.
- Destruction
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- Nov 07, 2020
In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.
- Plants
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020