- God
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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
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are always creating new tools and techniques to help people, but the fundamental framework is remarkably resilient, which means it must have something to do with the nature of organizations or human nature.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, if I have done my duty, the continued approbation of Congress and the Marine Committee will make me rich indeed, and far more than reward me for a life of service devoted from principles of philanthropy, to support the dignity of human nature.
- Esteemed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father!
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The actions that we take on the counterterrorism front, again, are to take actions against individuals where we believe that the intelligence base is so strong and the nature of the threat is so grave and serious, as well as imminent, that we have no recourse except to take this action that may involve a lethal strike.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
- Fools
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- Nov 07, 2020
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
- Befall
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- Nov 07, 2020
Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
- Mountains
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mountains are calling and I must go.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature's forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.
- Harmonious
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- Nov 07, 2020