Nature Quotes - Page 36

• What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Art, Intelligence, Ability

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• For man is by nature an artist.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Artist, Men

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• The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys of the Euphrates, the so-called cradle of civilization, where plants were first grown for crops by settled communities, garden enclosures were also constructed. Gardens emphasized the contrast between two separate worlds: the outer one where nature remained awe-inspiringly in control and an inner artificially created sanctuary, a refuge for man and plants from the burning desert, where shade trees and cool canals refreshed the spirit and ensured growth.

  Penelope Hobhouse

  Men, Garden, Civilization

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• The most devilish thing is 8 times 8 and 7 times 7 it is what nature itselfe cant endure.

  Marjorie Fleming

  Endure, Cant, Devilish

  'Journal' p. 47

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• When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ties, Faults, Bears

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1887). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”

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• Nature made him, and then broke the mold.

  Ludovico Ariosto

  Mold, Broke, Made

  'Orlando Furioso' (1532) canto 10, st. 84

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• The source of nature is spirit.

  Larry Gates

  Religion, Gardening, Spirit

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• Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.

  Laozi

  Moving, Enlightenment, Clarity

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play.

  John Stuart Mill

  Play, Giving, Made

  John Stuart Mill (1870). “The Subjection of Women”, p.48, Hayes Barton Press

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• No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper.

  Ezra Pound

  Rags, Paper, Dry

  Cantos no. 45, l. 11 (1937)

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• I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Eye, Escaping, Lasts

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• Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Worn, Plans

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.431

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• Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.

  Immanuel Kant

  Fate, Peculiar, Answers

  Immanuel Kant (1995). “Kant”, Element Books

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• The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work consists of subtle deductions from them. The teaching of languages, at any rate as ordinarily practiced, is of the same general nature authority and tradition furnish the data, and the mental operations are deductive.

  Thomas Huxley

  Work, Teaching, Data

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.66

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• In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Math, Science, Discovery

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• Amiable weaknesses of human nature.

  Edward Gibbon

  Weakness, Humans, Amiable

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.101

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• Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.

  Zhuangzi

  Doe, Satisfied

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• You can domesticate your body, but you can't domesticate your face - even by having a lift or having your nose bobbed. A face bears the reflection of our nature, which in the beginning is veiled by the attractiveness of youth. But as soon as youth begins to go, everything written on the face starts to come to the surface, and pretty soon it's engraved there. No landscape can equal a human face that's been molded by its own owner.

  Francoise Giroud

  Reflection, Landscape, Faces

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• Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God - the Teacher of the teacher.

  Tertullian

  Teacher, Soul, Taught

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• The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Fall, Whales, Finest

  Letter, The Public Advertiser, 22 May 1765.

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• What one approves , another scorns, And thus his nature each discloses: You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the thornbush full of roses.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Rose, Thorns, Approval

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• REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Moles, Stories

  Ambrose Bierce (2000). “Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: and Other Stories”, p.18, Penguin

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• The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.

  John Burroughs

  Flower, Smell, Grace

  John Burroughs (2008). “Pepacton”, p.211, Wildside Press LLC

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• Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.

  Alexander Pope

  School, Mazes, Fool

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 26

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• I meant to do my work today
  But a brown bird sang in the apple tree
  And a butterfly flitted across the field
  And all the leaves were calling me.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Butterfly, Apples, Bird

  Richard Le Gallienne, “I Meant To Do My Work To-Day”

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