“Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.”
— Blaise Pascal
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Bats drink on the wing, like swallows,
“Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.”
— Gilbert White
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To the artist there is never anything
“To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.”
— Auguste Rodin
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Human nature is so well disposed towards
“Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.”
— Jane Austen
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The right of nature… is the liberty
“The right of nature… is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.”
— Thomas Hobbes
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All my life through, the new sights
“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.”
— Marie Curie
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In all private quarrels the duller nature
“In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.”
— George Eliot
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All human actions have one or more
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.”
— Aristotle
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I am not going to claim that
“I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.”
— Herbert Read
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I have never felt salvation in nature.
“I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.”
— Michelangelo
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Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner
“Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.”
— Doug Coupland
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