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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
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an advocate of human nature.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
Green chemistry is replacing our industrial chemistry with nature's recipe book. It's not easy, because life uses only a subset of the elements in the periodic table. And we use all of them, even the toxic ones.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gentle undulating surface of lakes, I find inspiration in the movement of water. Sometimes I think about the journey the water has traveled, reconnecting me to the larger cycles of nature.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The transgressive nature of biography is rarely acknowledged, but it is the only explanation for biography's status as a popular genre.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn't hearing somewhere else and I 'needed' this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.
- Human Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.
- Fine Day
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- Nov 07, 2020