N Quotes
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“Nature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art.”
“Nature often seems like an idea that has had its day.”
“Nature,” on the original planet, had meant what was not controlled by human beings. “Nature” was what was substantially previous to control, the raw material for control, or what had escaped from control. Thus the areas of Dichew where few people lived, quadrants that were undesirably dry or cold or steep, had been called “nature,” “wilderness,” or “nature preserves.” In these areas lived the animals, which were also called “natural” or “wild.” And all the “animal” functions of the human body were therefore “natural” — eating, drinking, pissing, shitting, sex, reflex, sleep, shouting, and going off like a siren when somebody licked your clitoris.”
Source: The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
“Nature only goes so far. Nurture, what you raised on and what you ingest as a youngster, it really affects you when you grow up in really subtle, long drawn-out ways. And to find that, to hear that thing again all those years later and to realize that was the source, it's like, "What else has me twisted?" So now I'm going back to robots and cartoons; I go back to all this to see what got me the way that I am.”
“Nature operates in the shortest way possible.”
“Nature or, that which I see, inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge comes about to make something, but I want to come as close as possible to the truth and abstract everything from that, until I reach the foundation, still just an external foundation, of things.”
“Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.”
“Nature paces its change in gradual steps, and in this time of renewal, I danced in sync to the rhythm of life.”
Source: Beyond the Tears: A True Survivor's Story
“Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee.”
“Nature photography... that acknowledges what is wrong, is admittedly sometimes hard to bear - it has to encompass our mistakes. Yet in the long run, it is important; in order to endure our age of apocalypse, we have to be reconciled not only to avalanche and hurricane, but to ourselves.”
Source: Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values
“Nature places a simple constraint on those who leave the flock to go their own way: they get eaten. In society it's a bit more complicated. Nonetheless the admonition stands: avoiding the unknown has considerable survival value. Society, nature, and artmaking tend to produce guarded creatures.”
Source: Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
“Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.”
“Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.”
Source: Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet
“Nature prefers the more probable states to the less probable because in nature processes take place in the direction of greater probability. Heat goes from a body at higher temperature to a body at lower temperature because the state of equal temperature distribution is more probable than a state of unequal temperature distribution.”
Source: Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics Delivered at Columbia University in 1909
“Nature prioritizes yields. The expectation is that everything be profitable”
“Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a blunder, why make a fuss over it? Our self-removal from this planet would still be a magnificent move, a feat so luminous it would bedim the sun. What do we have to lose? No evil would attend our departure from this world, and the many evils we have known would go extinct along with us. So why put off what would be the most laudable masterstroke of our existence, and the only one?”
“Nature proceeds little by little from things lifeless to animal life in such a way that it is impossible to determine the exact line ure hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the Art of God.”
“Nature programmed the neurobiological processes of early love to appear as something beyond the primitive sexual cravings of the genitals. So, from an evolutionary standpoint, it all leads to copulation and reproduction, but from the perspective of the individual who has recently fallen head over heels in love with someone, it is mostly about a sensation of warmth and delight, and rarely of sexual nature.”
Source: Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
“Nature propels the philosopher into mankind like an arrow; it takes no aim but hopes the arrow will stick somewhere. But countless times it misses and is depressed at the fact… The artist and the philosopher are evidence against the purposiveness of nature as regards the means it employs, though they are also first-rate evidence as to the wisdom of its purpose. They strike home at only a few, while they ought to strike home at everybody—and even these few are not struck with the force with which the philosopher and artist launch their shot.”
— Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Treatise on Nomadology—The War Machine, p. 377 Archive.org”
“Nature propels the philosopher into mankind like an arrow; it takes no aim but hopes the arrow will stick somewhere. But countless times it misses and is depressed at the fact… The artist and the philosopher are evidence against the purposiveness of nature as regards the means it employs, though they are also first-rate evidence as to the wisdom of its purpose. They strike home at only a few, while they ought to strike home at everybody—and even these few are not struck with the force with which the philosopher and artist launch their shot.”
—Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Treatise on Nomadology—The War Machine, p. 377; originally: Nietzsche, Schopenhauer as Educator, in Untimely Meditations, trans. R. J. Hollingdale (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 177–178. Archive.org”
“Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.”
Source: Lazarre
“Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.”
“Nature provides exceptions to every rule.”
Source: Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)
“Nature provides that a man who slaves all day should spend the hours of the night in a palace full of houris whereas a king who wields the sceptre by day should have his sleep disturbed by nightmares of rebellion and assassination.”
Source: Delhi
“Nature [provides] with the excitement of the dance in the interest of the reproduction of the species.”
Source: Cocaine
“Nature pulls one way and human nature another.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)
“Nature pulls us up when we feel down, worked up, and vulnerable. It takes us out of our neurosis, shakes off the cobwebs, and helps us to mentally refresh. Nature shows us the way of the cycles and impermanence of all things and awakens the heart.”
“Nature rarely does anything mathematically perfect, and naturalism results from imperfections and deviations.”
“Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.”
“Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage”
“Nature reflects the moods of the wizard.”
“Nature religions, for example, speak of summer, fall, winter, and spring. They see the downward path as the necessary prelude to any kind of upward path again. Our vocabulary is different. We Christians speak of the death and resurrection of Jesus. But unfortunately, we've projected it all onto Jesus and it didn't become a life agenda for the rest of us.”
“Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new growth, the trees are not the same as the old, and the hills underneath their green vesture bear the marks of the past rending. To the eyes that have dwelt on the past, there is no thorough repair.”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“Nature repeats herself more than one would imagine. The sea has infinitely more variety.”
Source: Murder in the Mews
“Nature requires rain but it can be destructive, too.'
'Like love?' I ask but he doesn't seem to hear.”
Source: Please Love Me
“Nature resembles a printing-press, not the printer. It is an embroidery, not the Embroiderer. It is passive, not active. It is a pattern, not a source. It is an order, and not the Orderer. It is a law, not a power. It is a code of laws proceeding from a will, not an external reality.”
“Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.”
Source: The Sense of Wonder
“Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.”
Source: The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 1926-1948
“Nature resets your mind and breathes new life into you.”
“Nature reveals the necessary.”
“Nature’s beauty brings joy to the mind, but beauty of character cultivates righteousness in the heart.”
“Nature’s cycle, a poetic reflection of life’s eternal dance.”
Source: Life Changing Journey - 365 Inspirational Quotes - Series - I
“Nature's cyclical processes inspire permaculture economies, eliminating waste and pollution.”
“Nature's embrace nurtures life, while love illuminates the beauty within.”
“Nature's endless patience shows us that healing takes time.”
“Nature’s fairness is awe-inspiring, but her beauty is enthralling.”
Source: Life Changing Journey - 365 Inspirational Quotes - Series - I
“Nature's optical illusions can be found in the most unlikely places.”
“Nature's order unraveling under the strain of human excess and negligence shows us a world untethered by rain bombs and unpredictable floods. No magic umbrella will ever protect us. (“Rain Man - With a sky out of control“)”
“Nature’s pace is going with the flow; like water following the path of least resistance…”