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Nature Quotes by Tim Winton
- Yet however comforting and peaceful beach-combing is, it ends up like the sea, as disturbing as it is reassuring. In dark moments I believe that…
- For every moment the sea is peace and relief, there is another when it shivers and stirs to become chaos. It's just as ready to…
- I love the sea but it does not love me. The sea is like a desert in that it is quite rightly feared. The sea…
- The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.
- The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.
- The beachcomber goes looking for trouble, everything he finds is a sign of trouble. The writer is the same; without trouble he has nothing to…
- There is nowhere else I'd rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west with the continent…
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