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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
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At Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, I started taking psychology courses. I was interested in the nature of the human mind, the structure itself, pathologies with which it is afflicted. I really intended to be a writer all along, but I needed to take a subject that I could make a living at, either teaching it or doing it.
- Good Nature
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I do admire great essayists. I'm a particular fan of good nature writing. People like Robert Finch. I read great quantities of writing by naturalists. I've been studying the genre for years.
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Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
- Bird
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I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.
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In the book, I make the point that here we have string theory and here we have twistor theory and we don't know if either one of them is the right approach to nature.
- Political
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The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States.
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If people are shooting at you, it's human nature to be afraid. I was afraid. I'll be quite blunt about that.
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In Princess Margaret I found a fine friend who could steady my restless nature and offer wise counsel.
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I always say, 'Let your experiment speak to you.' What I mean by that is I - actually, we, or, at least, I'm not smart enough, actually, to guess how nature is working, but by looking and doing the right experiments and paying close attention to the subtleties of it, you start to catch on.
- Human Nature
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Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
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It's just never been in my nature to go out there and go on a red carpet to say, 'Oh, publicize me!'
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In school, you learn that there are only seven kinds of stories. There's man versus nature, man versus man, man versus himself, blah blah blah. So it doesn't matter what they're called. It's this: do you have a new story that fits into one of those things.
- Fellini
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- Nov 07, 2020