Quote by Gertrude Stein
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting. - Gertrude S

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting. – Gertrude Stein

Other quotes by Gertrude Stein

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger. – Gertrude Stein

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funny
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them. – Gertrude Stein

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Family
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that. – Gertrude Stein

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alone
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Other Quotes from
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Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and childrens faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup. – Sara Teasdale

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The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. – John Muir

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Nature

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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Nature

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness. – Taylor Caldwell

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Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength. – Billy Graham

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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. – Cree Indian Proverb

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Arbor Day

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. – George MacDonald

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Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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