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"753 Nature Quotes

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Better Hell Lot Nature
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Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

Alarm Morning Set Whether
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

First Law Nature Self-Preservation
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There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

Blue Orange Without Yellow
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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

Nature Doctrine Am Addicted
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There is no forgiveness in nature.

Forgiveness There Nature No
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In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

Noses People Scent Small
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The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Gotta Put Rain Rainbow
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It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.

Citizens Difference Little Make
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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

Conflicts Emotions Flowers Look
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The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

Itself May Nature Unconscious
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

Inspiration Nature
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It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.

Biology Curious Evolution Existence
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In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
Beach Headlands Sand
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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

Man War Nature
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eautiful, full or wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantment of later year…the alienation from the sources of our strength.

Nature Wonder
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The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
Sea Beautiful
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It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.

Beauty Earth Humility Wonder
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We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road — the one less traveled by — offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

Civilization Earth Environment Frost
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The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities... If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

Beauty Discovery Majesty Nature
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Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.

Environmentalism
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A Who's Who of pesticides is therefore of concern to us all. If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals eating and drinking them, taking them into the very marrow of our bones - we had better know something about their nature and their power.

Chemicals Nature Science
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Nature has introduced great variety into the landscape, but man has displayed a passion for simplifying it. Thus he undoes the built-in checks and balances by which nature holds the species within bounds.

Nature Passion Variety Species
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

Nature Beauty Strength Earth
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To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.

Edge Earthly Knowledge Nature
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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

Beauty Environment Environmental-justice Inspirational
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Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out upon it with wonder and curiosity, compounded with an unconscious recognition of his lineage. He could not physically re-enter the ocean as the seals and whales had done. But over the centuries, with all the skill and ingenuity and reasoning powers of his mind, he has sought to explore and investigate even its most remote parts, so that he might re-enter it mentally and imaginatively.

Ocean Sea Water
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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Agreeable Animals Ask Criticisms
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Account Country Deal Explanation
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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
Beautiful Believe Bottom Enough
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I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

Fish Judge Nice Rain
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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

Bird Consider Duck Family
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I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid. The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.

Born-again Humbles Life Mermaid
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Absolutely Good He Him
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Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'
Nature Party Saying Spring
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Greatest Human Idea Nature
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Given Law Little Much
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A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

Autumn Away Blown I Think
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
Always Any Creation Destroy
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

Dreary Midnight Once Weak
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

General Most Nature Particular
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Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

Because Everybody Harmony Just
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.

Animals Being Children Feeling
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.

Acres ABecause Being Beverly
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.

Court Get Little Sitting
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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Foolish Nature Pleasures Resist
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Ability Creativity Introduce Nature
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It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

Before Breakfast Day Discard
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From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

About All Day Away Breeze
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His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

Butterfly Did Dust He
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