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" A monkey is unaware that atoms exist. Likewise, our brainpower may not stretch to the deepest aspects of reality. The bedrock nature of space and time, and the structure of our entire universe, may remain 'open frontiers' beyond human grasp. "

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" Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are. "

Robert Redford

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" Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development. "

" I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude. "

" Nature is wont to hide herself. "

" There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good. "

" The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. "

" You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos. "

" Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature. "

" Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature. "

" 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. "

" When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. "

" Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. "

" We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us. "

Walter Gilbert

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" Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer. "

" Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. "

" Agriculture changes the landscape more than anything else we do. It alters the composition of species. We don't realize it when we sit down to eat, but that is our most profound engagement with the rest of nature. "

" Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature. "

" My dream is to save women from nature. "

" The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature. "

" The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him. "

" In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. "

" Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive. "

Bernard de Mandeville

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" There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world. "

" Little white lies are part of everyday life. If you're in court being charged with a felony, you're probably going to be tempted to lie. Or if your girlfriend asks you if the sweater she is wearing makes her look fat; you're going to lie because you love that person. There are different reasons and justifications to lie; it's human nature. "

" Nature is the art of God. "

" Man is by nature a political animal. "

" Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul. "

" The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency. "

" To copy Nature? A boy with a camera can do that. To get the spirit of Nature? A woodman or a shepherd can follow the trail of the whistling wind to hoarded sunshine in distant wolds. But to interpret Nature and inform it with a human personality that rises above it, invokes the divine in it, is the work of genius. "

" Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings. "

Marianne Williamson