Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

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Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and comedian. In a career spanning more than seven decades, he has written for film, television, and theater. As a screenwriter, Allen holds the record of most wins (3) and nominations (16) for the Academy...

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My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.

God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.

God silence noise

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

I am at two with nature.

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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

—Antoine Lavoisier

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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

—Max Beerbohm

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Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces.

—Rachel Carson

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