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" When you look for the environment, you find things that are in it: a hammer, a smartphone, some rusty nails, a shed, a spider, some grass, a tree. So there is a big difference between environmentality and Nature. Nature is definitely something you can point to: it is 'over yonder' in the mountains, in my DNA, under the pavement. "

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Monica Crowley

People

American

Nature

" America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think. "

" The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children. "

" To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked. "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Man

Will

Wicked

" 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. "

" I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own. "

" To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. "

" Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared. "

" Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. "

" There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners. "

" The Left is correctly wary of talk about nonhumans in the key of Nature and its spiritual partner, humanity. "

" I love not man the less, but Nature more. "

Lord Byron

I Love

Less

" Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies. "

" We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds. "

" Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

See

Truth

Our

" It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. "

" Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. "

Mary Wollstonecraft

Knowledge

Nature

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

Andrea Arnold

Life

Nature

" How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. "

" Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise. "

" Clever of me to become a critic. We critics scrutinize and show off to a higher end. For a greater good. Our manners, our tastes, our declarations are welcomed. Superior for life. Except when we're not. Except when we're dismissed or denounced as envious or petty, as derivatives and dependents by nature. Second class for life. "

" Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life. "

" Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power. "

" Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. "

" The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor. "

" When a dragonfly flutters by, you may not realize, but it's the greatest flier in nature. It can hover, fly backwards, even upside down. "

" There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. "

" I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful! "

" The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution. "

" Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer. "