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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. ↗

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I think naturally my orientation is from my father. ↗

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In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

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The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur. ↗

— William Bartram

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One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend. ↗

— James Payn

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Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom. ↗

— Jolene Blalock

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A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. ↗

— Michael Pollan

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Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead. ↗

— Louise Brooks

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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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I'm a natural. That's why I make the big bucks. ↗