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~ A healthy nature needs no God or immortality ~

~ A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along. ~

E B White

~ The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula,and feeds inspiration. ~

Henry Moore

~ What nature creates has eternity in it. ~

Isaac Bashevis Singer

~ What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it. ~

Isaac Singer

~ Necessity is the mistress and guardian of Nature. ~

Leonardo da Vinci

~ Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself. ~

Leo Tolstoy

~ Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. ~

C. S. Lewis

~ Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness. ~

Joseph Addison

~ Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature. ~

Thomas a Kempis

~ Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment. ~

H. Ross Perot

~ Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe. ~

Andrew Marvell

~ The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival. ~

Morris K. Udall

~ All works are being done by the energy and power of nature, but due to delusion of ego people assume themselves to be the doer. ~

Bhagavad Gita

~ If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics. ~

G. I. Gurdjieff

~ Sympathy is a virtue unknown in nature. ~

Paul Eipper

~ To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness ~

Confucius

~ Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. ~

Garrison Keillor

~ Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature ~

Charles Dickens

~ The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. ~

Cyrano De Bergerac

~ It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to. ~

Edgar Z. Friedenberg

~ The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions. ~

Dave E. Smalley

~ Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. ~

Mark Twain

~ I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated. ~

John Shirley

~ Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures. ~

Henry David Thoreau

~ What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. ~

Voltaire

~ It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins. ~

Lao Tzu

~ Communism is in conflict with human nature. ~

Ernest Renan

~ Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama. ~

Allen Tate

~ Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates. ~

Marquis de Sade

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