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Nature Quotes by Marilynne Robinson
- We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of…
- I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will…
- Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a…
- That odd capacity for destitution, as if by nature we ought to have so much more than nature gives us. As if we are shockingly…
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