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" All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. "
Toni Morrison
Memory
Nature
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" Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes and docile creatures. There is no payoff to getting the warm fuzzies in the presence of rats, snakes, mosquitoes, cockroaches, herpes simplex and the rabies virus. "
Paul Bloom
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" What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. "
Werner Heisenberg
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" You can't just let nature run wild. "
Walt Disney
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" The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. "
Toni Morrison
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" Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. "
John Burroughs
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Stone
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" Nature's my muse and it's been my passion. "
Frans Lanting
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" Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature. "
Noam Chomsky
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" See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. "
Richard P. Feynman
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" Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. "
Albert Camus
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" Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. "
Albert Schweitzer
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Earth
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" Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring? "
William C. Bryant
Where
Find
Bring
" I am fascinated by people's flaws and delusions: all the messy bits of human nature we all try to pretend we don't have. "
Hattie Morahan
Nature
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Try
" I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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" We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. "
Toni Morrison
Life
Measure
Die
" If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. "
Carl Sagan
You
Pie
Wish
" As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway. "
Nikola Tesla
Motion
Will
Wave
" No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground. "
Annie Besant
Passion
Silence
Nature
" The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet. "
Rebecca Harding Davis
Sun
Love
Earth
" 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. "
Albert Einstein
Because
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Reach
" I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad. "
Queen Rania of Jordan
Start
Nature
You
" No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings. "
Denis Diderot
Nature
Fellow
Human
" The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass. "
Elias Hicks
Grass
Blade
Every
" With the coming of spring, I am calm again. "
Gustav Mahler
Nature
I Am
Calm
" We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since then we've smoked it up and littered it and dumped too much in too many waters. I don't think it's our privilege to behave this way. "
Lewis Thomas
Too Much
Think
Nature
" Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself. "
Paul Muni
Far
Repeat
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" She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. "
Toni Morrison
Mind
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Good
" Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow. "
Abraham Lincoln
Slavery
Nature
Man
" The bluebird carries the sky on his back. "
Henry David Thoreau
Bluebird
Back
His
" I'm a nature bug. "
Donna Karan
Bug
Nature
" It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. "
Edgar Allan Poe
Nature
Truth
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