- Bridge
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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
- Human Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that human nature is scared of change and justifies it in all sort of ways.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
- Profit
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like characters who are changed, often for the better, by the dark nature of their experiences. I also can become engaged by a character for whom I wish to see justice done, one way or the other. In general, I require a book to have some sort of moral center.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are at their best when they are challenged. If we don't challenge ourselves, nature has a way of giving us challenges anyway. There is great value in our struggles, and human nature has shown us that we only value the things we struggle to achieve.
- Favourable
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- Nov 07, 2020
But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.
- Muse
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- Nov 07, 2020
And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.
- Blue
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- Nov 07, 2020
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
- Defective
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- Nov 07, 2020