#nature

From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

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I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

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Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job. ↗

— George W. Bush

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I've always wanted to fight for people who didn't have arms. I've always wanted to speak up for people who don't have a voice. I've always wanted to protect people who couldn't protect themselves. It's my nature. It's my instinct. ↗

— Sophia Bush

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Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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I love not man the less, but Nature more. ↗

— Lord Byron

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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

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And muse on Nature with a poet's eye. ↗

— Thomas Campbell

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