Quote by Francis Bacon
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. - Francis Bacon

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. – Francis Bacon

Other quotes by Francis Bacon

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts. – Francis Bacon

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Facts
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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution. – Francis Bacon

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Boldness
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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear. – Francis Bacon

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Other Quotes from
Environment
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Man shapes himself through decision that shape his environment. – Ren

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Environment

Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system. – Channing E. Phillips, speech, Washington, D.C., 22 April 1970

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Environment

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. – Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

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Environment

A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment. – L. Ron Hubbard

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Environment

Random Quotes

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. – Samuel Johnson

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Government

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. – Confucius

I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasnt religious. – Bear Grylls

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Faith

Now I know that that is just the phenomena of eating this way. Most all of my letters say I hit a plateau and then one morning I woke up and the melt had happened. – Suzanne Somers

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Morning