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"753 Nature Quotes

I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in mind that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow.

Always Bear Behind Easier
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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.

Character Clue Complexion Fact
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In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

Interested Must Persons Science
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I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

Easy Neither Nor Progress
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After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

After Attributed Been Essentially
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We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms.

Arms Before Bow Considerations
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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

AllMyLife Child Life Like
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Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Earth Effort Endless Heaven
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If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from.

Back Came Einstein Go
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In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children

America Children Class Classes
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I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.

Circumstances Events Extraordinary ExtraordinaryCircumstances
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Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary.

Genius Overflowing vitality Fertilize Nature
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Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Complex Difficult Explain Improbable
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Natural selection is anything but random.

Anything Natural Random Selection
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The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside.

Consolation Feeling Inside Nice
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My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

Atheism Evolution Feeling Led
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I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

Autumn Beauty End Garner
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On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

Broken Earth Heaven Perfect
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There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
Air Lungs Much Now
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Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.
Give Had Mysterious Origin
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For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.

So inconsistent Human nature Undertake
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The water of the river is the calmest, where the deepest.
Water River Calmest Deepest
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.

Admit Ape Like Realise
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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

The sun Moon Stars Disappeared
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There is something in the clear blue warm sea of the tropics, which gives to the stranger a feeling of unreality.

Something Sea Clear Blue
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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

Accompanies Based Being Beings
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A well man at sea has little sympathy with one who is seasick; he is too apt to be conscious of a comparison favorable to his own manhood.

Sympathy Comparison Conscious Favourable
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It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

Absolutely Change Circumstances Different
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In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.

Influence Nature Able Walk firmly
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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Am Bad Good Good Nature
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It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.

Hypothesis Know Means Rise
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Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
Creation Even Her Higher
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The race most people have been tricked to run will always be void of fulfillment. We are part of nature and nothing in nature lives for itself. Rivers don’t drink their own water, Trees don’t eat their own fruit & the sun doesn’t shine for itself. Living for each other is a rule.

The race Void Tricked Rivers
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Human nature Weak
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I've never gotten used to winter and never will.
Gotten Never Used Will
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The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.

Appreciate Garden Live Me
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The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

Find He Intense Man
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Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.

First First Thing Got Hair
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Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives.

Camels Castles Clouds Like
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It's much nicer to be known as Mr. Nice Guy than Mr. Nasty Guy. But you've got to have lines - and when you hit the line, that's the end of the story, nice guy or not.

End Got Guy Hit
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If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.

Entering Feel Happy Happy Man
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Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.

Boundless Compared Human Human Imagination
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Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't.

Dive Every Every Time Gift
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I'm hopeful that we'll be able to study the ocean before we destroy it.
Able Before Destroy Hopeful
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I think people had somehow gotten the sense that we have explored everything, when that isn't the case. We so know so little about the ocean, and so much of it is being destroyed.

About Being Case Destroyed
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It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.

Agency Aim Evil Good
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There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows.

Back Cows Like Nothing
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All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.

Become Begins Incomprehensible Language
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May my soul bloom in love for all existence.
Bloom Existence Love May
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Just as future eclipses of the Sun and Moon are indicated in the present relations of those bodies, so are future earthly lives indicated in what now lives within us.

Bodies Earthly Future Just
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