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Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
Joseph Butler on nature

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.
Rupert Sheldrake on nature

Nature chooses who will be transgender individuals don't choose this.
Mercedes Ruehl on nature

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
Mary Wollstonecraft on nature

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.
Alex Trebek on nature

The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.
Margaret J. Wheatley on nature

There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.
Stanislav Grof on nature

Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.
David Deutsch on nature

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.
Georg C. Lichtenberg on nature

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.
Steven Pinker on nature

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
Georg C. Lichtenberg on nature

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
Edvard Munch on nature

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
Patricia Highsmith on nature

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
Louis Nizer on nature

Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.
George Whitefield on nature

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.
Peter Singer on nature

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.
Corin Nemec on nature

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
Noam Chomsky on nature

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
John Milton on nature

Nature abhors a vacuum.
Francois Rabelais on nature