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It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
(Alice Meynell (1847-1922), British poet, essayist. "The True Colour of Life," Essays (1914).)
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The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.
(Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S. author. Picasso, Batsford (1938).)
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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
(Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German philosopher. Originally published in Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2 (1851). "On Women," Essays and Aphorisms, Penguin (1970).)
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I strove with none, for none was worth my strife:
Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art:
(Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), British poet. The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree (l. 7-10). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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The state is a creation of nature and man is by nature a political animal.
(Aristotle (384-323 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Politics 1.2; 1253a2-3, The Complete Works of Aristotle, trans. by Jowett, ed. Jonathan Barnes, Princeton, Princeton University Press (1985).)
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Nature inanimate employs sweet sounds,
But animated nature sweeter still,
To soothe and satisfy the human ear.
(William Cowper (1731-1800), British poet. The Task (I, l. 197-199).
NAEL-1. Norton Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. M. H. Abrams, general ed. (5th ed., 1986) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), British author. Sherlock Holmes, in A Study in Scarlet, ch. 5 (1888).)
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Parents fear lest the natural love of their children may fade away. What kind of nature is that which is subject to decay? Custom is a second nature which destroys the former. But what is nature? For is custom not natural? I am much afraid that nature is itself only a first custom, as custom is a second nature.
(Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French scientist, philosopher. repr. Encyclopedia Britannica, Chicago (1952). Pensées, no. 93 (1670), trans. J.M. Dent & Sons, London (1931).)
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Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same and everywhere one and the same in her efficiency and power of action; that is, nature's laws and ordinances whereby all things come to pass and change from one form to another, are everywhere and always; so that there should be one and the same method of understanding the nature of all things whatsoever, namely, through nature's universal laws and rules.
(Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza (1623-1677), Dutch pantheistic philosopher. The Ethics, bk. III, Introduction, On the Improvement of the Understanding, the Ethics, and Correspondence, p. 129, trans. by R.H.M. Elwes, Dover, New York (1955).
Spinoza's Ethics was one of the most revolutionary texts of modern philosophy.)
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Human-nature will not change.
(Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), U.S. president. response to a serenade, Nov. 10, 1864. Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 8, p. 101, Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990).)
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