- Life
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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
- Eccentricities
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get inspiration from a lot of things around me - nature, hills, people, and even insects.
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If you've worked in a factory, and you haven't learned how to do something else, you're obsolete. That's just nature.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is of the nature of spirit and soul must be gleaned from facts belonging to the spirit and soul; we shall then know that in the living thinking which is liberated from the will, a life-germ has been discerned which passes through the gate of death, goes through the spiritual world after death, and afterwards returns again to earthly life.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Knowledge has value only insofar as it contributes to the all-round development of the whole nature of man.
- Endowed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature has endowed us with needs; among them are some that she leaves to our own activity to satisfy. Abundant as are the gifts she has bestowed upon us, still more abundant are our desires. We seem born to be dissatisfied.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can find Nature outside us only if we have first learned to know her within us. What is akin to her within us must be our guide. This marks out our path of enquiry.
- Developmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Learning certain things purely through memory is related to the developmental forces that are present between the sixth or seventh year and the fourteenth year of life. This quality of human nature is what mathematical instruction should be based on.
- Trouble
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- Nov 07, 2020
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020