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Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature. -- Sadie Jones
My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me. -- Ada Yonath
Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. -- Wendell Berry
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. -- Wendell Berry
I played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around with a guitar that was larger than I was, and it became almost second nature to me. -- Dwight Yoakam
The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels. -- Rupert Sheldrake
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature. -- Abraham Lincoln
Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want events of that nature ever to happen again, and I have dedicated an important part of my life to ensuring that and to the reunion of all Chileans. -- Michelle Bachelet
By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind. -- Edward T. Hall
Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade. -- Lionel Shriver
I believe... that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself. -- William Butler Yeats
A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract. -- Jessamyn West
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning. -- Stendhal
We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory. -- Eugene Ionesco
Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment. -- Ellen Glasgow
People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely. -- Henry Cantwell Wallace
People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely. -- Henry Cantwell Wallace
in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to preserve it in eternal youth. -- Madame de Stael
...human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory... -- Seneca the Younger

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