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I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed. Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

Antoine Lavoisier
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Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of Nature.

Gaius Petronius
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Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator. -Olivia Newton-john
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When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.

Don Williams, Jr
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Stuff the economy, Go hug a tree instead.

Thomas Murray
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Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God. -Maria Mitchell
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Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

Dennis Gabor
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Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.

Brigham Young
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Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom. -Francis Picabia
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Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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I watched the sky a long time, concluding that such beauty was reserved for distant, dangerous places, and that nature has good reason for exacting her own special sacrifices from those determined to witness them.

Richard Byrd
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Why should humans in their unsurity decide what species are and are not important to humans? Is nature's characteristic ability to naturally select species not the most perfect decision maker we humans have access to on this issue? Just as we expect human children to respect their human elders, let us humans collectively respect our significant elder--Nature. -Ivan Urlaub
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None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

Marian Anderson
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In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

Alice Walker
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Man is nature's sole mistake. -William S. Gilbert
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

E. F. Schumacher
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving he can outwit nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

E. B. White
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. -Edward O. Wilson
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Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.

Edwin Way Teale
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In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

Edwin Way Teale
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My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. -Edward Hopper
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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Elizabeth Hardwick
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Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.

George Bernard Shaw
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It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. -Aristotle
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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle
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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. -Aristotle
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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Oscar Wilde
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Anybody can sympathise with the suffering of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

Oscar Wilde
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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. -Charles Dickens
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