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Quotes About Nature

No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist.
~ Ananda Coomaraswamy
...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready.
~ Charles Webster Hawthorne
Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.
~ James Anthony Froude
I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.
~ Kenneth R. Miller
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
~ Charles Baudelaire
Nature is full of teeth that come in one by one, then decay, fall out.
~ Anne Sexton
The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature.
~ Terence McKenna
The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still.
~ Robert Ludlum
The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable laws of Nature.
~ August Bournonville
This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.
~ Du Fu
All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody's property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
~ Bodhidharma
Nature is so varied in its modes of action, so multiple in the manisftations of its power, that we have no night to set any limits to its capabilities.
~ Camille Flammarion
It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.
~ Philip Emeagwali
The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
~ Edmund Burke
Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
~ Blaise Pascal
I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
~ Bob Dylan
You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.
~ Philip Roth, American Pastoral
I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
~ Charles Baudelaire
How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing.
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans