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Nature Quotes by John Updike
- I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like…
- Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.
- In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature.
- I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being…
- What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid…
- I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is good…
- Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
- Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
- Nature refuses to rest.
More Nature Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle