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If there's a power above us, (and that there is all nature cries
aloud
Through all her works) he must delight in virtue.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Cato (act V, sc. 1)
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Cato (act V, sc. 1)
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No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
Author: Aristotle
Source: Ethics (III, 5)
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Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?--
To its own impulse every creature stirs;
Live by thy light, and earth will live by hers!
Author: Matthew Arnold
Source: Religious Isolation (st. 4)
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death,
And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. Water and Wood)
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Nature means Necessity.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus--Dedication
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At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still
And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove,
When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill
And nought but the nightingale's song in the grove.
Author: James Beattie
Source: The Hermit
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Nature too unkind;
That made no medicine for a troubled mind!
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: Philaster (act III, sc. 1)
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Rich with the spoils of nature.
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Source: Religio Medici (pt. XIII)
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There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up
empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Source: Religio Medici (pt. XV)
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Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they
being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection
of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there
were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another.
In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of
God.
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Source: Religio Medici (sec. 16)
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I trust in Nature for the stable laws
Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant
And Autumn garner to the end of time.
I trust in God--the right shall be the right
And other than the wrong, while he endures;
I trust in my own soul, that can perceive
The outward and the inward, Nature's good
And God's.
Author: Robert Browning
Source: A Soul's Tragedy (act I)
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Go forth under the open sky, and list
To Nature's teachings.
Author: William Cullen Bryant
Source: Thanatopsis
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To him who in the love of Nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language.
Author: William Cullen Bryant
Source: Thanatopsis
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See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea,
one river, and see all.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. 2, memb. 4, subsec. 7)
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I am a part of all you see
In Nature: part of all you feel:
I am the impact of the bee
Upon the blossom; in the tree
I am the sap--that shall reveal
The leaf, the bloom--that flows and flutes
Up from the darkness through its roots.
Author: Madison Julius Cawein
Source: Penetralia
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[T]reat Nature by the sphere, the cylinder and the cone. . . .
Author: Paul Cezanne
Source: The World of Mathematics
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Nature vicarye of the Almighty Lord.
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Source: The Parlement of Fowles (l. 379)
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Not without art, but yet to Nature true.
Author: Charles Churchill
Source: The Rosciad (l. 699)
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Nature abhors annihilation.
[Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Finibus (V, 11, 3)
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Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.
[Lat., Meliora sunt ea quae natura quam illa quae arte perfecta
sunt.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Natura Deorum (II, 34)
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How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly
Ocean.
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Source: in "Nature"
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All argument will vanish before one touch of nature.
Author: George Colman ("The Younger")
Source: Poor Gentleman (act V, 1)
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Nature, exerting an unwearied power,
Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower;
Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads
The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Table Talk (l. 690)
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds,
Exhilarate the spirit, and restore
The tone of languid Nature.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. I, The Sofa, l. 181)
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Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.
Author: Lorraine Anderson
Source: None
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Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: None
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Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.
Author: Bernoulli
Source: None
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I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them.
Author: Bhagavad Gita
Source: None
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All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Source: None
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Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
Author: Luther Burbank
Source: None
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Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.
Author: James Carswell
Source: None
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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
Author: George Washington Carver
Source: None
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
Author: William Cowper
Source: None
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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.
Author: Albert Einstein
Source: None
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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Author: Richard P. Feynman
Source: None
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Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.
Author: Henry Fuseli
Source: None
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Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: None
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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes. By the deep sea, and music in its roars; I love not man the less, but nature more.
Author: George Gordon
Source: None
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I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
Author: Alan Havhamess
Source: None
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Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.
Author: Decimus Junius Juvenal
Source: None
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Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
Author: Johannes Kepler
Source: None
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Nature is not human hearted.
Author: Lao-Tzu
Source: None
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Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.
Author: Eric Mackay
Source: None
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The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.
Author: Molescholte
Source: None
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The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.
Author: John Muir
Source: None
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Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
Author: Luigi Pirandello
Source: None
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