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Nature Quotes - Page 101

We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.

We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.

George Washington, Jared Sparks (1852). “The Writings of George Washington: Life of Washington”, p.425

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2264, ShandonPress

In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.525

Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slaughter-house, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice!

Erasmus Darwin (1800). “Phytologia; Or, The Philosophy of Agriculture and Gardening: With the Theory of Draining Morasses, and with an Improved Construction of the Drill Plough”, p.556

In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen!

Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.27, Harvard University Press

O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep!

Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.98, Courier Corporation

Nature neither gives nor expects mercy.

Diane Ackerman (2011). “The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds”, p.13, Vintage

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.209, 谷月社