- People
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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
- Improvement
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- Nov 07, 2020
By enriching the carbon-dioxide content of the atmosphere from its impoverished pre-industrial levels, human beings have increased the productivity of the entire biosphere - so much so that roughly one out of every seven living things on the planet owes its existence to the marvelous improvement in nature that humans have effected.
- Bounty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Global warming would increase the rate of evaporation from the oceans. This would increase rainfall worldwide. In addition, global warming would lengthen the growing season, thereby increasing still further the bounty of both agriculture and nature.
- Human Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.
- Fact
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature is never finished.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.
- Extraordinary
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- Nov 07, 2020
It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
- Extensions
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- Nov 07, 2020