Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Nature
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I want death to find me planting my cabbages.
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Habit is second nature.
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We cannot fail in following nature.
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Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.
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Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace; there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.
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If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature.
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But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.
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Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.
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Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.
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There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but even to the trees and plants. We owe justice to people, and kindness and benevolence to all other creatures who may be susceptible of it. There is some intercourse between them and us, and some mutual obligation.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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