Best Nature Quotes - Page 3

• Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Insperational, Hiking

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

  Martin Luther

  Nature, Tree, Earth Day

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• I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to occupy, and then appeal to the best nature of people on that common ground.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Thinking, People, Common

  "Occupational hazards" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2007.

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• The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.

  Emile Souvestre

  Spring, Selfishness, Spurs

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• Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.

  John Dryden

  Art, Giving, Painting

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1836). “The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life”, p.332

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• Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.

  Phillips Brooks

  Use

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons”

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• I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.

  Aaron Siskind

  Photography, Men, Essentials

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• Okay, 'Best Party Ever' -- to me, that's like saying 'Best Gym Ever' or 'Best Nature Documentary Ever,' like how good can it really be?

  Lena Dunham

  Party, Documentaries, Okay

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• Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

  Plato

  Plato, Math, Kind

  Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.25, University Press of America

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