- Father
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is expected to contribute to the orchestration in progress, not simply to execute the score as it is written and rehearsed.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
- Commune
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- Nov 07, 2020
After taking a retreat into the woods of the Russian River Valley to write, reflect, and commune with nature and one another, 'Amethyst Journey' was born. The album is a collection of songs that are a combination of our outlook and inspirations - a response to current issues and the state of our planet.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nature of fashion is family.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody will leave any place unless they're forced out. That's the nature of humans. Once you're there, you're there. I've never seen anybody get up voluntarily and leave any place.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020