#nature

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness. ↗

— Michael Pollan

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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light! ↗

— Alexander Pope

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The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech. ↗

— Quintilian

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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly. ↗

— Quintilian

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