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Quotes About Nature

Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.
~ Frank Herbert
If your nature is infinite awareness trapped in a body, suddenly there's a lack of happiness, a lack of freedom. No matter what you get you'll never be happy, because these are all trinkets.
~ Frederick Lenz
So now the challenge is to imagine a different world where our wealth is in human relations and the things we do together, and we learn to live in balance with the rest of nature.
~ David Suzuki
Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.
~ Tom Stoppard
The divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness.
~ Thomas Keating
The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
~ Nikki Giovanni
Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.
~ Eugene Delacroix
Approaches to growing food that align with nature changed human relationships.
~ Frances Moore Lappé
This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence.
~ Tobsha Learner
Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.
~ Sigmund Freud
Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have been singing all my life, so it is pretty much second nature to me.
~ Gene Watson
Nature is as it is because this is the only possible nature consistent with itself.
~ Geoffrey Chew
Our buddha nature is as good as any buddha's buddha nature.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
I'm insatiably curious about human nature.
~ Susan Cain
Recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul.
~ William Wordsworth
All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.
~ Wallace Stevens
For most of human history, we lived communally in groups, and it was part of the security and nature of groups to help each other and groom each other.
~ Patch Adams
The career of flowers differs from ours only inaudibleness.
~ Emily Dickinson
Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit
~ Epictetus
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
~ Francis Bacon
For it is the nature of people to love, then destroy, then love again that which they value most.
~ Neale Donald Walsch