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Nature is a
self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any
automated machine. To create something in the image of
nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the
inner working of nature that man became a builder of
machines.
-- Eric Hoffer
1902-1983, American Author,
Philosopher
You may drive
out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly
running back.
-- Horace
BC 65-8, Italian Poet
The mountains,
the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the
fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
-- Victor Hugo
1802-1885, French Poet,
Dramatist, Novelist
A man who
lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable
with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow
than in the meanest streets of a great city.
-- P. D. James
1920-, British Mystery Writer
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Nature
never says one thing and wisdom another.
-- Decimus Junius
Juvenalis) Juvenal (c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet
Cats
are intended to teach us that not everything in
nature has a purpose.
-- Garrison Keillor
1942-, American
Humorous Writer, Radio Performer
Nature
uses as little as possible of anything.
-- Johannes Kepler
The
diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great,
and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich,
precisely in order that the human mind shall never
be lacking in fresh nourishment.
-- Johannes Kepler
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