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“Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.”— Titus Livius
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“I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it.”— Clyde Tombaugh
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“Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.”— David Seabury
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“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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“There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination.”— Denis Diderot
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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.”— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.”— Mary Wollstonecraft
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“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”— Frank Lloyd Wright
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“Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.”— Edward Thorndike
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“No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.”— Arthur Erickson
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“I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.”— James Dean
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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.”— Joseph Campbell
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“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”— Benjamin Britten
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“Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.”— Joseph Addison
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“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”— Ingrid Bergman
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“Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.”— John Updike
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“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.”— Jose Marti
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“Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.”— Alan King
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“Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.”— Jack Kingston
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“By nature, men love newfangledness.”— Geoffrey Chaucer
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“We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.”— Ellsworth Huntington
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“The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.”— Eric Hoffer
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“Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.”— Baruch Spinoza
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“Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.”— Joseph Smith, Jr.