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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. "

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" There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by. "

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" The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected. "

" Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable. "

" Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control. "

" Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. "

" Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not. "

" One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. "

" I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. "

" The ocean is a mighty harmonist. "

" The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature. "

" Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. "

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Nature

" What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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" Part of the satisfaction of tattling surely comes from showing oneself to adults as a good moral agent, a responsible being who is sensitive to right and wrong. But I would bet that children would tattle even if they could do so only anonymously. They would do it just to have justice done. "

" The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin. "

" You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor. "

" The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated. "

" Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature. "

Andrea Arnold

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Nature

" The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more. "

Mary Shelley

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Weep

" Sweet April showers do spring May flowers. "

" I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. "

" In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. "

" Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. "

" We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. "

" The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. "

" We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature. "

Voltaire

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Law

" Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves. "

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

" Morality is often seen as an innovation, like agriculture and writing. From this perspective, babies are pint-sized psychopaths, self-interested beings who need to be taught moral notions such as the wrongness of harming another person. "

" I concluded that all religions had the same foundation - a belief in the supernatural - a power above nature that man could influence by worship - by sacrifice and prayer. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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" Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. "