Natural Things Quotes

• Cooperation in the most natural thing in the world

  Janine Benyus

  World, Pitching, Cooperation

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  Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Summer, Peace

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• Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

  Laozi

  Change, Life Changing, Acceptance

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• Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Education, Teacher

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.337

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• I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

  Robert Redford

  Nature, Thinking, Earth Day

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• When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Peace, Nature

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  Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

  Laozi

  Life, Change, Spiritual

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• So the most natural thing to me is to stay as pure to or real to or close to who I am as possible.

  Erykah Badu

  Real, Who I Am, Natural

  "Talkin’ Knotty with Erykah Badu: A Super Natural". Interview, www.knottyandnice.org. November 23, 2011.

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• He who is ignorant of Motion, says Aristotle , is necessarily ignorant of all natural things. ...Not only was he entirely in the dark respecting the Laws, he was completely wrong in his conception of the nature of Motion. ...He thought that every body in motion naturally tends to rest.

  George Henry Lewes

  Dark, Law, Ignorant

  George Henry Lewes (1864). “Aristotle: a chapter from the history of science including analyses of Aristotle's scientific writings”, p.126, London : Smith, Elder and Company

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• I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. But when I started writing songs, I wrote very serious songs. Or things that a 13-14 year-old would think are very serious issues.

  Kyle Dunnigan

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• Art is a vocation, as much as anything in this world. For the real artist, it is the most natural thing in the world, not as necessary as air and water, perhaps, but as food and water. But we really do lead almost a monastic life, you know; to follow it you very often have to give up something.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Art, Giving Up, Real

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.86, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• What can be accomplished by a few principles is not effected by many. But it seems that everything we see in the world can be accounted for by other principles, supposing God did not exist. For all natural things can be reduced to one principle, which is nature, and all voluntary things can be reduced to one principle, which is human reason, or will. Therefore there is no need to suppose God's existence.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Atheism, Principles, Needs

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• The tears, when they come to some men, are worse than beatings. They're wounded worse by sobbing, men like that, than they are by boots and batons. Tears begin in the heart, but some of us deny the heart so often, and for so long, that when it speaks we hear not one but a hundred sorrows in the heartbreak. We know that crying is a good and natural thing. We know that crying isn't a weakness, but a kind of strength. Still, the weeping rips us root by tangled root from the earth, and we crash like fallen trees when we cry.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Rip, Heart, Men

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.563, Macmillan

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• In Southeast Asia the world is understood to be a vast, complex network of interdependent relationships. So when global capitalism makes it impossible for small-time rice farmers to feed their families and make a living, it is a natural thing for anyone in the family who can find an alternative source of income to do so.

  John Burdett

  Income, Alternatives, World

  "Bangkok 8". Book by John Burdett, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2003.

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• I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.

  Honore de Balzac

  Thinking, Wind, Well Known

  "Pages from the Goncourt Journal". Book by Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt, 2007.

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• I love watching people improve it is a natural thing for me to do.

  Robin Farina

  People, Natural

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• I think as you grow up and you see things which are around you and you ask questions and you hear the answers, your situation becomes more and more of a puzzle. Now, why is it like this, why are things like this and since writing is one way in which one can ask this questions and try to find these answers, it seems to me a very natural thing to do, especially as it meant stories which I always found moving, almost unbearably necessary.

  Chinua Achebe

  Growing Up, Moving, Writing

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• Natural things are glorious, and to know them is glorious.

  Thomas Traherne

  Inspirational, Nature, Natural

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.159, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To be in circumstances that are working upon us, that from time to time place us in front of great natural Things - that is all we need.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Needs, Natural, Circumstances

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• I think singing comes most naturally for me. Because it's part of your body - it's a natural thing. You can practice all you want but it's part of your body.

  Norah Jones

  Thinking, Practice, Singing

  "Singer / Song-writer Norah Jones TalkAsia Interview Transcript". Interview With Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. February 14, 2004.

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• For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Expression, Individuality, Firsts

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• Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize that you're always standing at the center of the world.

  Pema Chodron

  Details, Mindfulness, World

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.35, Shambhala Publications

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• Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please. I see no reason why I should not have the same thought, the same power of expression, to-morrow. What I write, whilst I write it, seems the most natural thing in the world; but yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in this direction in which now I see so much; and a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages. Alas for this infirm faith, this will not strenuous, this vast ebb of a vast flow! I am God in nature; I am a weed by the wall.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, Nature, Wall

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.178, Penguin

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