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Quotes About Nature

Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets.
~ Pieter Zeeman
Dogs are not people dressed up in fur coats, and to deny them their nature is to do them great harm.
~ Jeanne Schinto
Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.
~ Richard Widmark
If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back.
~ Horace
Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization I'm always appalled by 'me, me, me.'
~ Dian Fossey
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.
~ George Bird Evans
In arranging the bodies in order of their electrical nature, there is formed an electro-chemical system which, in my opinion, is more fit than any other to give an idea of chemistry.
~ Jons Jacob Berzelius
The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation.
~ Margaret Chan
I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.
~ Herbert Read
It is not what you think should be, but what is, that is interesting. When you have the expectation that something should be such and such a way, you will never learn what your nature wants.
~ Charlotte Selver
Natural gas is hemispheric; I like to call it hemispheric in nature, because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.
~ George W. Bush
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
~ Claude Monet
That part of his body was simply uncontrollable, apparently functioning in accordance to a single law of nature: She existed--he got a hard-on.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Nature never writes a blind hand.
~ Thomas Starr King
Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
~ Robinson Jeffers
Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.
~ Gretel Ehrlich
Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature.
~ Masanobu Fukuoka
We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in ourselves.
~ Arthur Dove
Christ's mission is to release the divine into our conscious knowing. He awakens the impulse in humanity to rise above his lower nature and be aware of his higher nature that dwells within.
~ Flower A. Newhouse
I am drawn to the wild not because it is wild but because it is sensible, logical, ordered, stable, resilient. Wild nature is everything we're struggling to regain.
~ Carl Safina
The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral compass and his reason.
~ Samuel Pisar
You can never really go wrong if you take nature as an example
~ Christian Dior
Examine the nature of hatred; you will find that it is no more than a thought. When you see it as it is, it will dissolve like a cloud in the sky.
~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche