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Quotes About Nature

We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.
~ Albert Camus
The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more.
~ T. E. Lawrence
By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It's a strange world, why make it stranger?
~ Bernard Malamud
The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.
~ Bertrand Russell
My nature is a quagmire of unresolved confessions.
~ Robert Creeley
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir
If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.
~ Charles Kingsley
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~ Donald Trump
I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing.
~ Edwidge Danticat
I don't see me doing $100 million films because $100 million films, the very nature of them, you need to offend as few people as possible just to make your money back.
~ Eriq La Salle
Nature knows no calendar, the seasons move in a circle.
~ Flora Thompson
Serene will be our days, and bright and happy will our nature be, when love is an unerring light, and joy its own security.
~ William Wordsworth
Some speak of a return to nature, I wonder where they could have been?
~ Frederick Sommer
Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
There is only one healing force, and that is nature; in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give the healing force of nature a hint about where there is something for it to do.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.
~ Bernard Malamud
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
~ Bernard Malamud
Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.
~ Susan Sontag
Nature has no outline. Imagination has.
~ William Blake
Nature's deepest laws, her only true laws, are her invisible ones.
~ Charles Kingsley
There is something marvelously soft in the study of nature which attaches a name to every being, a thought to every name, affection and memories to every thought.
~ Charles Nodier
You will not understand your part within the framework of nature until you actually see yourselves in danger of tearing it apart.
~ Seth
If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.
~ Charlton Laird