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• A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn’t use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Topics in Nature

• Nature is our chapel.

  Bjork Guomundsdottir

  Topics in Nature

• It’s incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.

  Bjork Guomundsdottir

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Care

• Therefore, I reasoned that study of the cell cycle responsible for the reproduction of cells was important and might even be illuminating about the nature of life.

  Paul Nurse

  Topics in Life, Nature

  Tags in Study, Important

• This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal.

  Paul Nurse

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Possibility, Academic, Environment

• Nature’s far too subtle to repeat herself.

  Paul Muni

  Topics in Nature

• I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn’t?

  Paul Merton

  Topics in Funny, Nature

  Tags in Comedy

• The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.

  Franz Kline

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Different

• Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

  Paul Klee

  Topics in Nature

• Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

  Franz Kafka

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Element, Within, Unconsciously

• You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

  Franz Kafka

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Suffering, Something

• I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman’s candid brow.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Around, Woman

• The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.

  Paul Hawken

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Rule

• It rarely adds anything to say, “In my opinion” – not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.

  Paul Goodman

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Opinion

• The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.

  Paul de Man

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Writers And Writing

• The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Topics in Nature

• Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

  Paul Cézanne

  Topics in Art, Nature

  Tags in Artist

• Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

  Paul Cézanne

  Topics in Art, Nature

• For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

  Paul Cézanne

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Paint, Painters

• I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

  Paul Cézanne

  Topics in Art, Nature