- Me
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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
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Toughing out the winter is a dedication to my heritage, both in terms of not going 'soft' by kowtowing to nature's volatility and staying physically close to my family in New England. I don't run from that kind of pressure.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.
- Nov 07, 2020
The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Civil law, as well as nature herself, has always recognized a wide difference in the respective spheres and destinies of man and woman.
- Harmoniously
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man is most happy when he is most perfect, and he is most perfect when all his faculties are proportionately and harmoniously developed. Thus developed, nature and art and society supply him with a thousand sources of enjoyment.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the busy-ness of office life. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that I love the solitary nature of writing. What happens is that you write when you're ready.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man in harmony with his Creator is sublime, and his action is creative; equally, once he separates himself from God and acts alone, he does not cease to be powerful, since this is the privilege of his nature, but his acts are negative and lead only to destruction.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without doubt, God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it.
- Assess
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically, it's hard for me to assess myself, a hardship not only prompted by the immodesty of the enterprise, but because one is not capable of assessing himself, let alone his work. However, if I were to summarize, my main interest is the nature of time. That's what interests me most of all. What time can do to a man.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.
- Constitute
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- Nov 07, 2020