Refinement Series
Nature
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Collected Nature
Latest AdditionsNo tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.— William Howard Taft
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There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. But God as my witness, I am going to try to do everything I can to keep this ass together for as long as I possibly can - without going against nature.— Zoe Saldana
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There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.— Jane Smiley
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We should choose simple ways of living... to live in harmony with nature by adopting simpler technologies and using natural resources innovatively.— Sonam Wangchuk
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Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.— Noam Chomsky
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Nature has endowed us with needs; among them are some that she leaves to our own activity to satisfy. Abundant as are the gifts she has bestowed upon us, still more abundant are our desires. We seem born to be dissatisfied.— Rudolf Steiner
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I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.— Martha Graham
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Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.— Alfred Marshall
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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.— Timothy Morton
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I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I'm not thinking about the camera and that it's second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it.— Anna Kendrick
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The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snowboarding, and I'm always around nature. I look at everything and think, 'Who couldn't believe there's a God? Is all this a mistake?' It just blows me away.— Paul Walker
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I had read an article about a couple who had developed a private forest in Coorg, and were working towards preserving it. I wanted to do something similar and wanted to give something back to the nature from which we have stolen so much. So my cousins and I bought 24 acres of land and we planted trees in that.— Atul Kulkarni
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Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.— Arthur Keith
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By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.— T. J. Miller
That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.— Hugh Jackman
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You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.— Ralph Steadman
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