- 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
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very nature of the government, and the direction it's been heading in for the past 40 years, is one of contrived government solutions to all the problems in the United States.
- Debarred
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
- Ignorance
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Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
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This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.
- Blossom
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There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
But we ought to consider the natural form and shape of a horse, that we may work him according to nature.
- Good
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
- Man
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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
- Mellow
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- Nov 07, 2020