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Quotes About Nature

I don't want to be a vampire. A lot of other people do and I think it's that dual nature - we have, you know, terrifying/intriguing.
~ Stephenie Meyer
Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.
~ George Santayana
on the instant clamorous eaves, A climbing moon upon an empty sky, And all that lamentation of the leaves, Could but compose man's image and his cry.
~ William Butler Yeats
Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee. -Jonathan
~ Scott Westerfeld
Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.
~ Teresa Nielsen Hayden
I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We must begin to understand the nature of intertextuality . . . the manner by which texts poems and novels respond to other texts. After all, all cats may be black at night, but not to other cats.
~ Henry Louis Gates
Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
~ Vikram Seth
Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.
~ Gertrude Stein
Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.
~ Gloria Steinem
The secret to economic growth lay in the fact that that each generation attacked Nature not only with its own energies and resources, but with the heritage of equipment accumulated by its forebears.
~ Robert Heilbroner
....Nature imposes nothing on you that Nature doesn't prepare you to bear.
~ Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.
~ Henry David Thoreau
But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy, Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great: Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast, And with the half-blown rose; but Fortune, O!
~ William Shakespeare
Nature is a perfect example of the harmony between the beautiful and the brutal. You turn over a pretty rock and there are worms writhing underneath.
~ Sarah McLachlan
Beauty- it was a glorious gift of nature.
~ Homer
Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.
~ Victoria Gotti
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.
~ William Hazlitt
Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma). One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa. Rely on your Self; self-reliance
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.
~ Henry David Thoreau