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Nature Quotes

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

– Taylor Caldwell

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

– Thomas Paine

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

– William Ralph Inge

I feel particularly close to them, because I am now out in the universe. I’m in a position to see nature from another point of view, to be outside the earth and see the big picture.

– Story Musgrave

We imagine that human nature doesn’t change. We like to say that but I don’t think it’s true because we have, in the course of the centuries, altered ourselves.

– Theodore Zeldin

Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are well known, is a fairly risky place to live. To be evil, you have to have intent. Any remarkable natural happening in which no human will is employed cannot be regarded as evil.

– Simon Winchester

I would say I’m an optimist by nature.

– Steve Tisch

Twitter is incredibly useful. It’s a great example of how the Internet is changing the way we engage with information and text. Above all else, this change in the nature of engagement is fascinating for me as a writer.

– Steven Hall

Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.

– Thomas Frank

Till 1782, I believed in the doctrine of Calvin: that is, that the majority of mankind were objects of divine condemnation and that their punishment would be everlasting. The ‘Systeme de la Nature,’ read about the beginning of that year, changed my opinion and made me a Deist.

– William Godwin

That human beings seek their own well-being and that of those close to them is not an especially provocative discovery. What is important is that this universal aspect of human nature persists no matter what economic system is in place; it merely expresses itself in different forms.

– Thomas Woods

Technology has allowed us to have more drought-resistant crops. The spotty nature of drought, the spotty nature of rains can sometimes result in better yields than anticipated.

– Tom Vilsack

I’m not asking myself, ‘How I can be different from Netanyahu?’ because I am different, and Kadima is different from Likud, by its own nature.

– Tzipi Livni

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

– William Wordsworth

Nature is perfect.

– William Shatner

The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it.

– Terri Windling

In the summer of 1791, I gave up my concern in the ‘New Annual Register,’ the historical part of which I had written for seven years, and abdicated, I hope forever, the task of performing a literary labour, the nature of which should be dictated by anything but the promptings of my own mind.

– William Godwin

Now there are laws in many parts of the world which reflect the best of human nature. These laws treat people touched by HIV with compassion and acceptance. These laws respect universal human rights and they are grounded in evidence.

– Shereen El Feki

English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.

– Zadie Smith

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

– Willie Stargell

There’s a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it’s being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.

– Wole Soyinka

The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts – understandably given the formative nature of the Bible and the Talmud. Seeing Jewish history through artifacts, architecture and images is still a young but spectacularly flourishing discipline that’s changing the whole story.

– Simon Schama

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

– Xun Kuang

All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature.

– Wilhelm Dilthey

It’s hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.

– Story Musgrave

The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed.

– Walther Bothe

Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.

– Sinclair Lewis

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

– Thomas Huxley

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

– Werner Heisenberg

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

– Stephen Gardiner

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