- Duty
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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
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.
- Bloom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem of good as it faces the atheist is this: Nature, which is the nuts-and-bolts reality for the atheist, has no values and thus can offer no grounding for good and evil. Values on the atheist view are subjective and contingent.
- Desiring
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
- Bump
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- Nov 07, 2020
Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every author believes that the book which he is placing before the public will 'fill a long-felt want,' and success or failure depends very much on how closely he has been able to gauge the nature of the 'long-felt want.'
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
- Derives
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- Nov 07, 2020