Nature Quote by Penelope Fitzgerald

““The barge anchors were unrecognisable as such, more like crustaceans, specimens of some giant type long since discarded by Nature, but still clinging to their old habitat, sunk in the deep pits they had made in the foreshore. But under the ground they were half rusted away. Dreadnought's anchor had come up easily enough when the salvage tug came to dispose of her. The mud which held so tenaciously could also give way in a moment, if conditions altered.””

Penelope Fitzgerald

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If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

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Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.

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Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.

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“La fuerza de voluntad es inútil si no se va a algún lado”

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“You can borrow my Blackbird, if you like,' said Ben. This was his new fountain pen, which troubled him. It was guaranteed not to…

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“She ought to go down to the beach. It was Thursday, early closing, and it seemed ungrateful to live so close to the sea…

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An unjust punishment is never forgotten.

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Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment.

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Experiences aren't given to us to be 'got over,' otherwise they would hardly be experiences.

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It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

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Remember that your natural state is joy.

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“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care…

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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

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“Men mistook measurement for understanding. And they always had to put themselves at the center of everything. That was their greatest conceit. The earth is becoming warmer-it must be our fault! The mountain is destroying us-we have not propitiated the gods! It rains too much, it rains too little-a comfort to think that these things are somehow connected to our…

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“She was, he knew- and had known very early, he supposed- one of those rare and always lovely humans whose moral nature was so delicate that it must be nourished and cared for that it might be fulfilled. Alien to the world, it had to live where it could not be at home; avid for tenderness and quiet, it had…

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