2476 Nature Quotes for You to Enjoy

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. Jon Meacham

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To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another. Leonardo da Vinci

Great art picks up where nature ends. Marc Chagall

Art Great Nature Great Art Picks Up Ends Where

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull. Natalie Dormer

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Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation. P. T. Barnum

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

Life Nature Man Liberty Will Power Own Say Hath He Himself His Use Each Each Man Right Preservation

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing. Thomas Paine

Truth Nature Liberty Wants Ask Appearing

A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill. Vernon Howard

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'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' W. H. Auden

Art Nature Me Science Healing Papa Tell Would Intuitive Wooing

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. Marcus Aurelius

Death Nature Birth Secret Like

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. Samuel Butler

Nature Way Only Another Making Egg Hen

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. Elizabeth Bowen

Day Nature Morning Winter Spring Autumn Close Early Early Morning

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God. Alan Hovhaness

God Nature Always Clothing Regarded

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men. Alfred Lord Tennyson

Nature Darkness Men Out Reach Came Hands

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it. Archibald Alexander

Nature Fool Never She Makes Any Blunders Means

In a culture fueled by burnout, a culture that has run itself down, our national resilience becomes compromised. And when our collective immune system is weakened, we become more susceptible to viruses that are part of every culture because they're part of human nature - fear-mongering, scapegoating, conspiracy theories, and demagoguery. Arianna Huffington

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Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd. Baruch Spinoza

Nature Absurd Contrary Whatsoever Reason

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. John Keats

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. John Kenneth Galbraith

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