N Quotes
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“Nature eschews regular lines; she does not shape her lines by a common model. Not one of Eve's numerous progeny in all respects resembles her who first culled the flowers of Eden. To the infinite variety and picturesque inequality of nature we owe the great charm of her uncloying beauty.”
“Nature evaluates a character on the basis of its merits, not demerits.”
“Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order.”
Source: Kant's cosmogony as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens: With introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham
“Nature eventually has her own way, so perhaps the best procedure is to accept what old Mother Nature or God, if you will, dictates. Accept it and you'll get along better.”
Source: Evenings With Cary Grant: Recollections in His Own Words and by Those Who Knew Him Best
“Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.”
“Nature exists for man no more than she does for monkeys, and is as regardless of his life or pleasure or success as she is of the fleas. Her waves will drown him, her fire burn him, and her earth devour him, her storms and lightning smite him, as if he were only a dog.”
“Nature expresses a design of love and truth.”
Source: Charity in Truth
“Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.”
“Nature finds its peace in silence, forgiveness, and universal love.”
“Nature Firgives But Never Forgets.”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love the organisms for themselves first, then strain for general explanations, and, with good fortune, discoveries will follow. If they don't, the love and the pleasure will have been enough.”
“Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“Nature follows it’s own laws. No matter how much we try to learn about it’s ways, we can only perceive what we see. We can only interpret them the way we understand them and mostly what can be established in physical sciences. There will always be an overwhelming element of mystery in it’s simplicity, there will always be more to discover. God whispers to a tranquil and open mind. We can hear Him in the silence and mysteries of nature. Are you listening?”
“Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“Nature forgives but never forgets.”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“Nature formed me fierce.”
Source: Glenarvon ...
“Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.”
“Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.”
Source: Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope: As Related by Herself in Conversations with Her Physician; Comprising Her Opinions and Anecdotes of Some of the Most Remarkable Persons of Her Time
“Nature full strength is more than we can take, Adam One used to say. It's a potent hallucinogen, a soporific, for the untrained Soul. We're no longer at home in it. We need to dilute it. We can't drink it straight. And God is the same. Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.”
Source: The Year Of The Flood
“Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.”
“Nature gave microplastics a home.”
“Nature gave the same form to all
And warms each one with the same heat
Using reason, we follow her inclination
To give equal opportunity to our fellow humans
Who are our brothers.
None should seek felicity
To the detriment of his neighbor.
Depriving oneself of a pleasure to offer it to others
Is the sign of a noble heart
And the expression of wisdom.
Thus nature and reason go hand in hand
And ask us to help one another
For the good of all and by common agreement
We share
In the feast of life.”
Source: L'âge d'or. Volume 1
“Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.”
“Nature gave you brothers and sisters and you have no right to choose who should become your relative. But the good news is that you have the right to choose your friends. You determine who to be free with and who to fire out.”
Source: Become a Better You
“Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.”
Source: Yedo and Peking: A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China ...
“Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.”
Source: Science and the Modern World
“Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.”
“Nature gives children great emotional resilience to help them survive the oppressions of being small, but these oppressions still make them into slightly insane adults, either mad to seize all the power they once lacked or (more usually) mad to avoid it.”
Source: Poor Things
“Nature gives constantly to us. We as indendepent egos think we're important. Selfless giving has to do with overcoming the ego. The ego makes us unhappy.”
“Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.”
“Nature gives man corn but he must grind it; God gives man a will but he must make the right choices.”
“Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.”
Source: Novels
“Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets.”
“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”
“Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.”
“Nature goes to the same place to create a galaxy of stars: a cluster of nebulas, a rain forest, a human body, or a thought. That place is Spirit.”
Source: Everyday Immortality
“Nature grinds all of us. Keep count of the ounce of pleasure you get. In the long run, nature did her work through you, and when you die your body will make other plants grow. Yet we think all the time that we are getting pleasure ourselves. Thus the wheel goes round.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.”
“Nature had been fucked with. And Mother was pissed.”... Mother Nature was funny that way. Complex. Unpredictable.
And unforgiving as hell if you fucked around with her.”
“Nature had found the perfect place to hide the yellow fever virus. It seeded itself and grew in the blood, blooming yellow and running red.”
Source: The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
“Nature had gathered her choicest treasures , to draw her lovers into close and confiding communion with her”
Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings
“Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature.”
Source: The Devil in Winter
“Nature happens, but sometimes, if you're not told just how special it is, you take it for granted. The same can be true with people.”
“Nature has a counterpart, a representation of every interior mood and obscure perception of man.”
“Nature has a drive for wholeness and has created us only in relationship like one giant superorganism. It's a fact there is a connection between atoms and all of us in relationship with each other and with our environment. In all of our societal relationships there is a bond so profound and intricate that it's impossible to say where one thing stops and another thing begins. So you see this mirrored in every aspect, from the subatomic world to the world that we're more familiar with. So competition ends up being a false creation in our society.”
“Nature has a funny way of breaking what does not bend.”
“Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.”
“Nature has a habit of placing some of her most attractive treasures in places where it is difficult to locate and obtain them.”
“Nature has a healing power that teaches us that we are a part of a larger world.”
“Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious inner feelings and mysterious foreknowledge.”