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" Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. "
E. O. Wilson
Spiritual
Even
Nature
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" Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not. "
Galileo Galilei
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Man
" By 'justice', I understand nothing more than that bond which is necessary to keep the interest of individuals united, without which men would return to their original state of barbarity. All punishments which exceed the necessity of preserving this bond are, in their nature, unjust. "
Cesare Beccaria
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Bond
Nature
" Moonlight is sculpture. "
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sculpture
Nature
Moonlight
" Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest. "
Chen Shui-bian
Forest
Nature
Tree
" Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. "
Francis Bacon
Overcome
Nature
Hidden
" When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic. "
Barack Obama
" Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances. "
Charles Baudelaire
Nature
Words
Confused
" 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
Bad
Good
Nature
" Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. "
Josef Albers
Than
Real
Abstraction
" There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You can't plan nature; you court her. "
Robert Irwin
Nature
Garden
You
" You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos. "
Rudolf Steiner
Human Nature
Nature
Relationship
" And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns. "
Thomas Moore
Flowers
Thorns
Nature
" The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art. "
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Art
Counterpart
Counterfeit
" You do what you like because you just follow your curiosity, and you are happy when you find new things about nature, about how things work around us and inside us. "
Erwin Neher
Happy
Nature
New
" Nature's my muse and it's been my passion. "
Frans Lanting
Nature
Passion
Muse
" When one looks at Nature through the glass walls of the Farnsworth House, it takes on a deeper significance than when one stands outside. More of Nature is thus expressed - it becomes part of a greater whole. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Walls
Glass
House
" Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature. "
Adrian Cronauer
Speech
Flag
Free
" I have always understood the Nazis because I am of that sort by nature. "
William Golding
Sort
Always
Am
" The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. "
Francis Bacon
Over
Nature
Understanding
" Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. "
John Lubbock
Earth
Sky
Sea
" Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion. "
Antoine Lavoisier
Creator
Instrument
Set
" Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating. "
Nicolas Cage
Always
Me
Interesting
" I slow down when hiking. The rhythm of nature is more leisurely. The sun comes up, it moves across the sky, and you begin to synchronize to that rhythm. "
John Mackey
Down
Sky
You
" 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. "
John Muir
Fast
Far
Nature
" Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere. "
Brigham Young
Sun
Sea
Glass
" 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. "
Thomas Hobbes
Will
Nature
Men
" My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature. "
Claude Monet
Like
Wish
Stay
" We need to take a leaf out of nature's book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash. "
Daniel Suarez
Book
Inevitable
Leaf
" The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours. "
William Wordsworth
Us
See
Nature
" I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory. "
Julius Caesar
Glory
Long
Lived