- Problem
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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
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues.
- Christmas Tree
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature was developed to resist the onslaughts of capitalism, but it's really not a very good defense - rather like resisting a steamroller with a Christmas tree ornament.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aesthetic experiences are powerful, to be sure, and probably inescapable, but Nature will not remain effective for very long.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been very encouraged by the nature of the conversations that I've had and by the lack of questions that are tunnel-visioned in their understanding of sexuality and life and love.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, to find a place that doesn't have an organized tour going to it is becoming more and more difficult. A lot of times it involves danger of a political nature - places where the adventure-travel trips can't go because they can't get any liability insurance.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps most important for nomads was the belief in the symbiosis that existed between wolf and humans on the steppe. Wolves were an integral part of keeping the balance of nature, ensuring that plagues of rabbits and rodents didn't break out, which in turn protected the all-important pasture for the nomads' herds.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
What he's done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It's beautifully realised - it's a beat film.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
That human beings seek their own well-being and that of those close to them is not an especially provocative discovery. What is important is that this universal aspect of human nature persists no matter what economic system is in place; it merely expresses itself in different forms.
- Ambition
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- Nov 07, 2020
Communism brought out the worst in human nature and crippled people's ability or ambition to participate in a market economy.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.
- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One learns more from listening than speaking. And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.
- Embryo
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020