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'The Nature of Jade' is about a girl who works with the elephants at the zoo near her home, and who, through her involvement with them, becomes involved with a boy and his baby.

— Deb Caletti

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

In every advanced mammalian species that survives and thrives, a common anthropological characteristic is the fierce behavior of the adult female of the species when she senses a threat to her cubs. The lioness, the tigress and the mama bear are all examples.

— Marianne Williamson

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

— Johann Georg Hamann

We have lost sight of nature's role in the whole process of maturation and growing up. Parents and nature are a team. And nature can't go on without the parental role of being able to foster individuality and viability unless the attachment needs are fully met.

— Gordon Neufeld

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

— Marilyn French

We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.

— Graydon Carter

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

— Gustave Courbet

✗Opposing Perspectives

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

— Beck

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

— Charles Baudelaire

There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.

— Ted Naifeh

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

— John Donne