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"753 Nature Quotes

I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.

Assigned Cause Explained Force
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It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses.

Apparent Because Bodies Come
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It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.

Bodies Case Depend Directed
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Just as the system of the sun, planets and comets is put in motion by the forces of gravity, and its parts persist in their motions, so the smaller systems of bodies also seem to be set in motion by other forces and their particles to be variously moved in relation to each other and, especially, by the electric force.

Also Bodies Each Electric
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The hypothesis of matter's being at first evenly spread through the heavens is, in my opinion, inconsistent with the hypothesis of innate gravity without a supernatural power to reconcile them, and therefore, it infers a deity.

Being Deity First Gravity
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I'd never walked on snow 'til I was 50, you know. There's no snow where I come from.
Come Know Never Snow
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It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confined; namely that which addresses itself to the imagination from that which is solely addressed to the eye.

Eye Imagination Addresses Ideas
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Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

Artist Confusion Nature Point
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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Clouds Leaves Moving Respond
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Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

Avoiding Being Neurosis Way
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Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.
Doubt Element Faith Opposite
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

Bears Long Nice Them
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Years of cultural programming have taught us to love some animals while eating others, when in all reality, all animals are sentient beings with the capacity to feel, both physically and emotionally. Every day, I have the choice to live a life of compassion that not only saves animals but helps the environment.

Animals Beings Both Capacity
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Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

Admired Artists Creations Gives
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Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.

Cats Teach us Nature Purpose
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Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Carved Crooked Entirely Made
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As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway.

Branches Currents Ebb Electric
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Dark Lighthouse Many Metaphysics
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We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we note the effects of strange forces which we bring into play, which allow us to transform, to transmit and direct energy at will.

Allow Bring Connections Delight
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I like animals, all animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog - or a chicken or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian.

Animals Ask Cat Chicken
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Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It's one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice.

Acceptable Butt Jokes Last
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The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.
Message Worms Inherit Earth
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We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
Remember Observe nature
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

Called An acute Human nature
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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
Noble Simplicity Works Nature
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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.

Take back stuff Bush Cloud
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I realize that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

Realize Undertaking Opposition
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If you go to Minnesota in January, you should know that it's gonna be cold. You don't panic when the thermometer falls below zero.

Below Cold Falls Go
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You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.
Got Moon Rolling Rolling Stones
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Nature is the art of God.
Art God Nature
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A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

Flame Mighty Spark Tiny
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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Adequate Believed Mastery Nature
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Butterfly Counts Enough Moments
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You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.

Appreciate Get Got Just
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As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

About Am Atrocity Beings
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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Earth Effort Endless Heaven
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Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile
Butterflies Flowers Sunny day Nature
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Nature alone can speak to our intelligence an imperishable language, never changing, because it remains within the bounds of eternal truth and of what is absolutely noble and beautiful.

Nature Speak Intelligence Language
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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.

Human nature Eternal Follows Keeps
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I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be.

About Because Children Doing
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Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
Abuse Abuse Nature Never
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Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.

Best Day Grow Had
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Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
Come Garden Like Roses
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There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.
Being Little Possibility Without
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I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

Abyss Am Beings Fond
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Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.
Being Everything Inner Lasts
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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

Human Human Nature Middle Nature
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You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
Suspicious Tree Bird Challenge
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Nothing in nature is as simple as it sometimes seems when reduced to words.

Nature Simple Reduced Words
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If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.

Always Another Bless Blessed
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