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Nature

«Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?»
«Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.»
Author: Clare Boothe Luce (Diplomat, Playwright) | About: Nature | Keywords: frozen
«Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.»
«Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality»
Author: Juvenal | About: Nature | Keywords: confessed, noblest
«Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away»
Author: Matthew Arnold (Critic, Poet) | About: Nature | Keywords: sons, sweep, sweep away
«Nature, red in tooth and claw.»
Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson | About: Nature | Keywords: claw, clawing, tooth
«Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr. (Lawyer, Philosopher) | About: Nature | Keywords: commanded, obeyed
«Nature did all things well.»
Author: Michelangelo | About: Nature
«Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics of the chips that were left.»
«Nature, to each allots his proper Sphere, But, that forsaken, we like Comets err: Toss'd thro' the Void, by some rude Shock we're broke, And all our boasted Fire is lost in Smoke»