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" Quotes and Sayings About nature

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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The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

Race Nature
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Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces.

Cosmos Humanity Life Mankind
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To have risked so much in our efforts to mold nature to our satisfaction and yet to have failed in achieving our goal would indeed by the final irony. Yet this, it seems, is our situation.

Efforts Nature Satisfaction
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Anything Changing Disposition Efforts
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Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'
Nature Party Saying Spring
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The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Being Hasty Human Leap
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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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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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It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.

Ahead Best Doing Going
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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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In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

Been Change Conflict Encouraging
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We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.

Because Build Cannot Every
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How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

Does How Intrude Knock
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Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
Eldest Harm Mother Nature
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

About Bright Bright Future Feel
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I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.

Another Choose Guide Leading
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If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

Enemy Friend Nature Need
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You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

God Got Inside Make
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I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.

About Amount Fish Goes
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Like a force of nature love can fade with the stars at dawn..
Force Nature Fade Stars
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In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
Every Far He More
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I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.

Been Better Cattle Change
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The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

Civilization Destroyed Generally Gross
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Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

Air Alone Befall Course
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Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

Away Awhile Break Clean
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To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

People Prince Understand Nature
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The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?

Beauty Call Dell Devout
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Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature's forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

Adventurous Armed Beasts Came
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Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, 'convulsions of nature,' etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God's love.

Creation Earthquakes Etc Every
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Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

Allowing Another Beautiful Building
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains.

Baptist Beauty Care Eager
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Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.

Accomplice Am Aware Call
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

Beat Goal Heartbeat Life
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The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.

America Continent Created Does
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The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.

Nature DNA IMAX Redefined
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Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.

Cult Future Genre Harmony
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I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
Mystery Coincidences Emotion Dream
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Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

Along Go Nature Part
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I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Almost Almost Everything Any Essential
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The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
Changes Constant Nature Scene
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Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high-- Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?

Creature Morals Drink Nature
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A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

Nature Like Poem Often
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Forces Imagination Nature Words
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.

Applied Bearing Dress Found
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