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Ingrid Bergman | A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. | 22 |
Alexander Hamilton | There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. | 101 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. | 101 |
Albert Camus | Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. | 101 |
George Santayana | The family is one of nature's masterpieces. | 101 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. | 101 |
Hippocrates | Everything in excess is opposed to nature. | 101 |
John Muir | Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. | 101 |
Lord Byron | There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more. | 101 |
Robert Frost | The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. | 101 |
Saint Teresa of Avila | The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. | 101 |
Vladimir Nabokov | The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea. | 101 |
Langston Hughes | Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. | 101 |
William Wordsworth | Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. | 101 |
Ai Weiwei | Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature. | 101 |
Annie Leibovitz | Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself. | 101 |
Antoine Lavoisier | I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed. | 101 |
Beck | 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. | 101 |
Christian Dior | You can never really go wrong if you take nature as an example. | 101 |
Christopher Alexander | This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it. | 101 |
Clare Balding | If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are calm and confident, it will come forward. For those who are often flattered or feared, the horse can be a welcome mirror of the best in human nature. | 101 |
Courtney Love | I'm not a woman. I'm a force of nature. | 101 |
Denis Diderot | There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. | 101 |
E. M. Forster | What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? | 101 |
E. O. Wilson | Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. | 101 |
Edouard Manet | There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another. | 101 |
Edward Abbey | May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. | 101 |
Emile M. Cioran | What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his? | 101 |
Euclid | The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God. | 101 |
Frank B. Kellogg | It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day. | 101 |
Frans de Waal | The fact that the apes exist and that we can study them is extremely important and makes us reflect on ourselves and our human nature. In that sense alone, you need to protect the apes. | 101 |
Freya Stark | Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature. | 101 |
Gerard Way | It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all. | 101 |
Giorgio Vasari | In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. | 101 |
Hal Borland | Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. | 101 |
Hans Christian Andersen | Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. | 101 |
Henri Matisse | There are always flowers for those who want to see them. | 101 |
Jacques Yves Cousteau | The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. | 101 |
John Donne | Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing. | 101 |
Karel Capek | Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time. | 101 |
Karen Armstrong | It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles. | 101 |
Marquis de Sade | All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one. | 101 |
Michael Faraday | Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature. | 101 |
Nicholas Negroponte | Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization and order can only come from centralism. | 101 |
Novalis | Nature is a petrified magic city. | 101 |
Octavio Paz | Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. | 101 |
Orson Pratt | The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics. | 101 |
Paracelsus | The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. | 101 |
Paul Johnson | Germany's Angela Merkel exudes an atmosphere of elderly exhaustion and pooped-out pessimism. Britain's David Cameron, though by nature exuberant, feels he has to look and sound glum. And France's leader, Francois Hollande, seems determined to drive every successful businessman out of the country. | 101 |
Pedro Calderon de la Barca | Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. | 101 |
Richard Louv | We tend to block off many of our senses when we're staring at a screen. Nature time can literally bring us to our senses. | 101 |
Robert Browning | I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time. | 101 |
Robert Delaunay | Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. | 101 |
Robert Redford | Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are. | 101 |
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec | Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. | 101 |
Steven Pinker | With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution. | 101 |
Suzanne Collins | One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too late to children. I think they can hear them, understand them, know about them, at a much younger age without being scared to death by the stories. | 101 |
Ted Williams | Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game. | 101 |
Theodore Roethke | Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. | 101 |
Tom Hanks | Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour. | 101 |
Ugo Betti | There is no forgiveness in nature. | 101 |
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran | Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game. | 101 |
Vitruvius | Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature. | 101 |
Wallace Stevens | In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature. | 101 |
Wendell Berry | To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. | 101 |
Zac Efron | I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling! | 101 |
Alfred Austin | The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. | 101 |
Ben Folds | The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you. | 101 |
Bill Frist | Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny. | 101 |
Burl Ives | The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring. | 101 |
Chip Conley | In general, I'm not much into etiquette and am a rule-breaker and rebel by nature. | 101 |
Chiwetel Ejiofor | The idea of making a film - a film that I had certainly never seen before - about the slave experience was a huge responsibility. It's a project that requires a wider understanding of the geopolitical nature of the slave trade, of historical and modern-day racism. | 101 |
Duane Michals | Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient. | 101 |
Edward Thorndike | To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind. | 101 |
Elihu Root | There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world. | 101 |
Elizabeth Bowen | Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. | 101 |
Ella Maillart | I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch. | 101 |
Grace Gealey | I don't have time to beat myself up over my fallible nature. Instead I use my energy to learn from my past and let it inform my future. It's time to own all of our glory, mistakes, mess and light and be gentle to ourselves. Let's be kind to our spirits and celebrate the truth of our hearts. | 101 |
Harriet Martineau | It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature. | 101 |
Helen Garner | The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall. | 101 |
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. | 101 |
Henry Morton Stanley | The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children. | 101 |
Hjalmar Branting | Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature. | 101 |
Jenny McCarthy | Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care. | 101 |
Joan Jett | I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet. | 101 |
John Dryden | Self-defence is Nature's eldest law. | 101 |
Jules Renard | On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. | 101 |
Kenneth R. Miller | I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution. | 101 |
Kevin Kelly | The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system. | 101 |
Leigh Hunt | Colors are the smiles of nature. | 101 |
Louie Schwartzberg | Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with. | 101 |
Lucy Larcom | No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment. | 101 |
Madeleine M. Kunin | When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring. | 101 |
Maurice Maeterlinck | Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature. | 101 |
Norman MacCaig | I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own. | 101 |
Robert Crumb | I would call myself a Gnostic. Which means, I'm interested in pursuing and understanding the spiritual nature of things. A Gnostic is somebody seeking knowledge of that aspect of reality. | 101 |
Roberto Cavalli | Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature. | 101 |
Roy Bean | And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow. | 101 |
Rudolf Steiner | All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature. | 101 |
Sinclair Lewis | Winter is not a season, it's an occupation. | 101 |
Tom Shadyac | There's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law that's evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs. | 101 |
Tom Vilsack | Technology has allowed us to have more drought-resistant crops. The spotty nature of drought, the spotty nature of rains can sometimes result in better yields than anticipated. | 101 |
Walter Gilbert | We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us. | 101 |
Walter Lang | If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven. | 101 |
William Morris Hunt | The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her. | 101 |
Aasif Mandvi | I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast. | 101 |
Barnett Newman | Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'. | 101 |
Chantal Sutherland | So many times, people told me I can't do this or can't do that. My nature is that I don't listen very well. I'm very determined, and I believe in myself. My parents brought me up that way. Thank God for that. I don't let anything stand in my way. | 101 |
Christopher Heyerdahl | Mother Nature is the great equalizer. You can't get away from it. | 101 |
Eleonora Duse | If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. | 101 |
Elizabeth Appell | And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. | 101 |
Emily Carr | Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises. | 101 |
Gary Speed | Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper. | 101 |
Gerard De Nerval | Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. | 101 |
Harry Crews | There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with. | 101 |
Harry Reasoner | The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly. | 101 |
Henry Norris Russell | Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them. | 101 |
Henry W. Kendall | If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not. | 101 |
Jean Giraudoux | The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. | 101 |
Loren Eiseley | One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star. | 101 |
Ma Jun | On April 16, 2010, 34 Chinese environmental organizations, including Friends of Nature, the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Green Beagle, questioned heavy metal pollution in a letter sent to CEO Steve Jobs. | 101 |
Margaret Chan | The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation. | 101 |
Miriam Makeba | I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. | 101 |
Nacho Figueras | Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature. | 101 |
Peter Beard | The last thing left in nature is the beauty of women. | 101 |
Pierre Schaeffer | Sound is the vocabulary of nature. | 101 |
Randy Travis | I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business. | 101 |
Richard Russo | I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid. | 101 |
Ricky Skaggs | The fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors. The sun is out, you get warmth on your skin but there's the coolness of the breeze. It's really comfortable. | 101 |
Ruth Bernhard | The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony. | 101 |
Sydney Smith | Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. | 101 |
Thomas Reid | But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind. | 101 |
Alex Trebek | If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you. | 101 |
Ann Druyan | For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature. | 101 |
Cote de Pablo | I've seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there's nothing closer to God than that. | 101 |
Eugenie Clark | Sharks are among the most perfectly constructed creatures in nature. Some forms have survived for two hundred million years. | 101 |
Hal Boyle | What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else. | 101 |
Hamlin Garland | I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. | 101 |
Henri Rousseau | Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see. | 101 |
Henry Beston | The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. | 101 |
Joseph Franklin Rutherford | The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man. | 101 |
Liu Xiaobo | Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth. | 101 |
Pamela Hansford Johnson | The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire. | 101 |
Paul Taylor | I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful! | 101 |
Pawan Kalyan | Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself. | 101 |
Rebecca Harding Davis | The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet. | 101 |
Roger Miller | Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. | 101 |
Thomas Hood | I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence. | 101 |
Alex Van Halen | It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats. | 101 |
Armistead Maupin | I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers. | 101 |
Christopher Gadsden | My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature. | 101 |
Daniel Suarez | We need to take a leaf out of nature's book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash. | 101 |
Debbie Gibson | I don't know if people feel this way, but I think by nature that when you start off as a young pop singer, they assume that you're a bit pampered, prissy, and precious, or that you live in a bubble and not in the real world. For me that's not the case. | 101 |
Eric Berne | The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. | 101 |
Jack Kingston | Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature. | 101 |
Julie Bowen | I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have. | 101 |
Lene Hau | Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues. | 101 |
Louis Agassiz | The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature. | 101 |
Monica Raymund | Little white lies are part of everyday life. If you're in court being charged with a felony, you're probably going to be tempted to lie. Or if your girlfriend asks you if the sweater she is wearing makes her look fat; you're going to lie because you love that person. There are different reasons and justifications to lie; it's human nature. | 101 |
Murray Gell-Mann | For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations. | 101 |
Patanjali | Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind. | 101 |
Carl Reiner | A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. | 101 |
Joshua Reynolds | A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great. | 101 |
Mercy Otis Warren | It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy. | 101 |
Mo Yan | A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression. | 101 |
Rebecca Miller | I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach. | 101 |
Sidney Hook | Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. | 101 |
Thomas Eakins | The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools. | 101 |
Thomas Guthrie | As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. | 101 |
Thomas R. Kelly | We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace. | 101 |
Charles K. Kao | Maybe it was the home tutoring, or the late start to formal schooling, or an overly cautious and protective upbringing, but in any case, I never became a talkative person. As an adult, I am not always comfortable in social gatherings with small talk. I must have inherited my father's gentle nature. | 101 |
Rudolf Otto | A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works. | 101 |
Charles Brenton Huggins | Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer. | 101 |
Ruth Park | He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one by intent. | 101 |
Sui He | Relaxing, experiencing nature and laughing are what rejuvenate me and make me feel happy. I believe that when I feel happy, that's when I look beautiful... I make a point of laughing out loud every single day. | 101 |
Alfred Sisley | I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature. | 101 |
Andrew Bernstein | Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen. | 101 |
Jack Herer | Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet. | 101 |
Julia Ward Howe | God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature. | 101 |
Max Bill | Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art. | 101 |
John Garamendi | Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work. | 101 |
Joakim Noah | It's really important to have balance, spend some time in nature, go to a few parties, enjoy my friends and really chill out. | 101 |
Maria Sibylla Merian | Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time. | 101 |
James Gunn | In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope. | 101 |
James Whitcomb Riley | When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. | 101 |
Jo Ann Davis | We benefit from doing nothing, from going out to play, from giving from the heart and spending time in nature. Most of all we benefit from having healthy, strong, and loving relationships with other people and from exercising the altruistic parts of ourselves. | 101 |
Albert Einstein | Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. | 102 |
Dale Carnegie | One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. | 102 |
George Eliot | Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. | 102 |
Gottfried Leibniz | For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another. | 102 |
John Muir | The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. | 102 |
Nikola Tesla | Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom. | 102 |
D. H. Lawrence | The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. | 102 |
Dennis Prager | There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good. | 102 |
Mattie Stepanek | Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second. | 102 |
Robert Baden-Powell | Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual. | 102 |
Alfred Nobel | Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. | 102 |
Andy Goldsworthy | My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made. | 102 |
Ann Voskamp | I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives. | 102 |
Anthony J. D'Angelo | Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. | 102 |
Antoine Lavoisier | We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation. | 102 |
Antoni Gaudi | Nothing is art if it does not come from nature. | 102 |
Benjamin Britten | It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. | 102 |
Charles Baudelaire | Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest. | 102 |
Chris Hadfield | The world, when you look at it, it just can't be random. I mean, it's so different than the vast emptiness that is everything else, and even all the other planets we've seen, at least in our solar system, none of them even remotely resemble the precious life-giving nature of our own planet. | 102 |
Christian Dior | My dream is to save women from nature. | 102 |
Claude Debussy | There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature. | 102 |
Dag Hammarskjold | Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. | 102 |
Edward Young | The course of Nature is the art of God. | 102 |
Ellsworth Huntington | No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings. | 102 |
Evgeny Morozov | The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication that rests on a stubborn refusal to admit its downside. | 102 |
Frederick Soddy | Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful. | 102 |
Friedrich Schleiermacher | Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling. | 102 |
Giordano Bruno | There is one simple Divinity found in all things, one fecund Nature, preserving mother of the universe insofar as she diversely communicates herself, casts her light into diverse subjects, and assumes various names. | 102 |
Helen Hunt Jackson | I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod. | 102 |
Henrik Ibsen | A forest bird never wants a cage. | 102 |
John Burroughs | How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. | 102 |
Judy Garland | Behind every cloud is another cloud. | 102 |
Lex Luger | I was trying to be 27 at age 47, but God had to get rid of my vanity. I had trouble letting go of the old Lex physically. My human fleshly nature didn't want to let go of what had come to be billed as 'The Total Package.' I guess God had to help me get rid of the last remnant of that vanity and pride. | 102 |
Livy | Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence. | 102 |
Louis Aragon | We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. | 102 |
Max Planck | Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. | 102 |
Michael Pollan | A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. | 102 |
Mikhail Gorbachev | We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race. | 102 |
N. R. Narayana Murthy | Science is about unravelling nature. | 102 |
Oscar Robertson | I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson. | 102 |
Paul Ryan | Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government. | 102 |
Robert Delaunay | Light in Nature creates the movement of colors. | 102 |
Roy Rogers | What's a butterfly garden without butterflies? | 102 |
Samuel Butler | Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. | 102 |
Stella McCartney | The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me. | 102 |
Sylvia Earle | With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea. | 102 |
Tadao Ando | When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan. | 102 |
Taylor Caldwell | It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness. | 102 |
Terry Riley | Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness. | 102 |
Theodore Roethke | Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. | 102 |
Thomas Frank | Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains. | 102 |
Walter Martin | The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity. | 102 |
Wilhelm von Humboldt | I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. | 102 |
William Bartram | The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur. | 102 |
William Christopher Handy | Nature was my kindergarten. | 102 |
Xavier Rudd | For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy. | 102 |
Yayoi Kusama | Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments. | 102 |
Adam Weishaupt | When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished. | 102 |
Anne Bronte | It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever - bless them, dear creatures! | 102 |
Charles Ives | A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity. | 102 |
Daniel Tammet | I know from my own experience that there is much more to 'intelligence' than an IQ number. In fact, I hesitate to believe that any system could really reflect the complexity and uniqueness of one person's mind, or meaningfully describe the nature of his or her potential. | 102 |
David Rakoff | A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, or HIV. I hate to say it - none of these make one an artist. They can help, but just as being gay doesn't make one witty... the only thing that makes one an artist is making art. | 102 |
Don DeLillo | There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. | 102 |
Eugene Delacroix | Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it. | 102 |
Harmon Killebrew | I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler. | 102 |
Johannes Kepler | The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. | 102 |
John James Audubon | During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks. | 102 |
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky | All the universe is full of the lives of perfect creatures. | 102 |
Louie Schwartzberg | I think we need to do some deep soul searching about what's important in our lives and renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking, whether it's through faith-based religion or just through loving nature or helping your fellow man. | 102 |
Man Ray | Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information. | 102 |
Marc Chagall | Great art picks up where nature ends. | 102 |
Margaret Cavendish | A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils. | 102 |
Michael Shermer | The natural inclination in all humans is to posit a force, a spirit, outside of us. That tendency toward superstitious magical thinking is just built into our nature. | 102 |
Roger Tory Peterson | Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy. | 102 |
Rose McIver | I love having the laid-back, easy-going, family-priority nature of New Zealand, but I'm certainly enjoying the States in terms of the career opportunities and the enthusiasm I get to find work. | 102 |
Sherry Turkle | The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesn't teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation. | 102 |
Thomas Campbell | Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue. | 102 |
William Allingham | Autumn's the mellow time. | 102 |
William C. Bryant | The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight. | 102 |
Adolf Loos | Be truthful, nature only sides with truth. | 102 |
Annie Jump Cannon | Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all. | 102 |
Bridget Riley | For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces. | 102 |
David Mixner | As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on the farm, the fields and forests were places of adventure and self-discovery. Animals were companions and friends, and the world moved at a slower, more rational pace than the bustling cities where I'd resided my adult life. | 102 |
Eduardo Paes | Rio is an energetic, vibrant place, full of beauty and nature. But we face the kinds of problems any developing metropolis does - with pollution, traffic congestion, poverty. Distribution of green areas, for example, is not uniform. Madureira, the heart of the suburb in Rio, is a concrete jungle. | 102 |
Harold Coffin | Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. | 102 |
Karolina Kurkova | Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy. | 102 |
Matsuo Basho | The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. | 102 |
Maurice Ravel | For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy. | 102 |
Pierre Bonnard | Art will never be able to exist without nature. | 102 |
Steven Weinberg | Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out. | 102 |
Story Musgrave | Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication with God, if you want to call all of this creation part of God. | 102 |
Taslima Nasrin | Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no! | 102 |
Thomas Tusser | Sweet April showers do spring May flowers. | 102 |
Alan Hovhaness | I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God. | 102 |
Arthur Keith | Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities. | 102 |
Edwin Way Teale | For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm. | 102 |
Georg Trakl | I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods. | 102 |
Hamlin Garland | My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. | 102 |
Paul Muni | Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself. | 102 |
Thomas Woods | Communism brought out the worst in human nature and crippled people's ability or ambition to participate in a market economy. | 102 |
Tracee Ellis Ross | Here is my wish and my desire and my pledge as well: that we remember our true nature and our womanhood. That we own and know that we are more than our bodies and yet our bodies are these sacred, beautiful, rhythmic houses for us. | 102 |
Thomas Hood | Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime. | 102 |
Allan McNish | Especially with sports cars, when you have got so many cars on the track with various degrees of competitiveness, then something will happen. It's the nature of racing, the law of averages. If you want to be a front-runner then you are going to have to push very hard, and collisions can happen. | 102 |
Brian McDermott | I can't go against my nature because I am what I am. I don't try to be anyone different to who I am. | 102 |
David Seabury | Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow. | 102 |
Pierre Charron | God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself. | 102 |
Ruth St. Denis | We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds. | 102 |
Charles Mackay | There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it. | 102 |
J. C. Ryle | Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life. | 102 |
James Thomson | I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence? | 102 |
Mark Russell | You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game. | 102 |
Samuel Daniel | Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art. | 102 |
Archibald Alexander | Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it. | 102 |
John McGraw | My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm. | 102 |
Matthew Green | Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way. | 102 |
Murray Bartlett | I'm a real nature lover, so whenever possible, I like to get to the beach or get to a forest or get somewhere there's fresh air. Apart from that, I'm a film addict and a DVD freak. | 102 |
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time. | 102 |
Mary Webb | Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions. | 102 |
Jean Ingelow | The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon. | 102 |
Joyce Kilmer | I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree. | 102 |
John Muir | The mountains are calling and I must go. | 103 |
Isak Dinesen | I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots. | 103 |
Dennis Prager | Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature. | 103 |
Ada Lovelace | I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature. | 103 |
Antoine Lavoisier | Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion. | 103 |
Arnold J. Toynbee | As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility. | 103 |
Bill Watterson | If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently. | 103 |
Charles Lindbergh | In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. | 103 |
Egon Schiele | I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures? | 103 |
Evangeline Lilly | My favorite parts about 'The Battle of Five Armies' were the moments where you could clearly see that we were looking at New Zealand. That it wasn't done in post, it wasn't CGI, it was the beautiful, incredible creation of Mother Nature in all of her splendor. | 103 |
Georg C. Lichtenberg | We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing. | 103 |
Gloria Vanderbilt | I do spend money. I like to spend money, on houses - on furnishing houses. And I love to give presents to people. It's just in my nature to be that way. I always spent money I had. And I always spent what I made. I'm not stingy. | 103 |
Henri Poincare | The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. | 103 |
Henry Adams | Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. | 103 |
Ivan Turgenev | However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words. | 103 |
Joseph Joubert | When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees. | 103 |
Kate Bush | I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something. | 103 |
Laurence Sterne | Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature. | 103 |
Lucy Maud Montgomery | Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star. | 103 |
Marilyn French | Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model. | 103 |
Marlo Thomas | I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it. | 103 |
Natalie Dormer | Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull. | 103 |
Neil Young | Earth is a flower and it's pollinating. | 103 |
Nicolas Cage | Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating. | 103 |
Norman Foster | There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics. | 103 |
Patrick Henry | We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. | 103 |
Russel Honore | People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature. | 103 |
Russell Wilson | My height doesn't define my skill set. To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature - and I try to bring that on a daily basis. | 103 |
Steven Pinker | The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream. | 103 |
Thomas Moore | And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns. | 103 |
William Bartram | Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom. | 103 |
Albrecht Durer | As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art. | 103 |
Charles Eastman | Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers. | 103 |
Criss Angel | Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there's still a part of us who wants to believe in an alternative reality, where we can defy the laws of nature. | 103 |
Donella Meadows | Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone. | 103 |
Donna Leon | Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it. | 103 |
Duane Michals | I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of portraiture because it deals exclusively with appearances. I've never believed people are what they look like and think it's impossible to really know what people are. | 103 |
Gilbert White | Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams. | 103 |
Guillaume Apollinaire | Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. | 103 |
John Lubbock | Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. | 103 |
John Paul Jones | It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. | 103 |
John Shelby Spong | It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different. | 103 |
Jon Meacham | If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. | 103 |
Louie Schwartzberg | When a dragonfly flutters by, you may not realize, but it's the greatest flier in nature. It can hover, fly backwards, even upside down. | 103 |
Philip James Bailey | Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. | 103 |
Randeep Hooda | None of us can claim to be fair and square in love - and I'm definitely not a hypocrite! Humans are built to evolve with time. It depends on the nature of the relationship you share with a person. It is there today, tomorrow it may be gone; c'est la vie. | 103 |
Roger Tory Peterson | I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them. | 103 |
Sargent Shriver | The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin. | 103 |
William C. Bryant | The groves were God's first temples. | 103 |
Bai Ling | Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too. | 103 |
Elias Hicks | The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass. | 103 |
Jacques Lacan | For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence. | 103 |
Jane Velez-Mitchell | Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen. | 103 |
Joseph Butler | Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown. | 103 |
Ralph Merkle | Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant. | 103 |
Robert Smithson | Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal. | 103 |
Rosamund Pike | Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature. | 103 |
Steve Lacy | I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed. | 103 |
William Merritt Chase | You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on nature's own hues and tints. | 103 |
Adam Clarke | Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect. | 103 |
Georges Simenon | The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world. | 103 |
Hamlin Garland | Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy. | 103 |
Michael Shannon | If you don't believe there's some organising principle, or somebody up in the sky pulling the strings, then it can be very stressful. And nature itself is very arbitrary - it's not malevolent or benevolent; it doesn't even know we're here. | 103 |
James Anthony Froude | The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it. | 103 |
Jim Woodring | A tree is an incomprehensible mystery. | 103 |
Malcolm de Chazal | Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down. | 103 |
Samuel Daniel | The stars that have most glory have no rest. | 103 |
John Hoeven | On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations. | 103 |
Mercedes Ruehl | Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this. | 103 |
Andre Norton | There's no night without stars. | 103 |
James Montgomery | Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue? | 103 |
Mother Teresa | We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. | 104 |
Albert Camus | In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. | 104 |
Anne Frank | The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. | 104 |
Gottfried Leibniz | Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things. | 104 |
Leonardo da Vinci | Water is the driving force of all nature. | 104 |
Thomas Hobbes | The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life. | 104 |
Ivan Pavlov | It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature. | 104 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley | O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? | 104 |
Virgil | As the twig is bent the tree inclines. | 104 |
Alexander Pope | All nature is but art unknown to thee. | 104 |
John Ruskin | Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. | 104 |
Richard P. Feynman | Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. | 104 |
Brian Greene | Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analyzing aspects of black holes we see space and time in an exotic environment, one that has shed important, and sometimes perplexing, new light on their fundamental nature. | 104 |
Charlotte Bronte | If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it. | 104 |
Christian Nestell Bovee | Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them. | 104 |
Daniel Kahneman | By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones. | 104 |
Diana Ross | People don't know about the human part of me that really cares about the world. For instance, I don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to wear it anymore because I'm so wrapped up in the animals. I have real deep thoughts about it because I care about the world and nature. | 104 |
Dmitri Mendeleev | It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole. | 104 |
Edward Young | Read nature; nature is a friend to truth. | 104 |
Ellsworth Huntington | We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers. | 104 |
Evo Morales | The most important thing is the indigenous people are not vindictive by nature. We are not here to oppress anybody - but to join together and build Bolivia, with justice and equality. | 104 |
Hal Borland | A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. | 104 |
John Burroughs | I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. | 104 |
Lewis Thomas | We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time. | 104 |
Nicola Formichetti | Having plants and flowers in my space makes me feel very calm and Zen. For me, it's important to meditate every morning to be very clear in the head, and nature really helps me do the same thing. | 104 |
Nik Wallenda | One of the things I enjoy is the challenge of Mother Nature. | 104 |
Paul Davies | General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts to unify all the forces of nature in terms of geometrical structures. | 104 |
Robert Byrne | Winter is nature's way of saying, 'Up yours.' | 104 |
Robert Schumann | Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation. | 104 |
Rutherford B. Hayes | Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone. | 104 |
Saint Ambrose | Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all. | 104 |
Sally Ride | The view of Earth is spectacular. | 104 |
Steven Pinker | Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control. | 104 |
Thomas a Kempis | Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature. | 104 |
Thor Heyerdahl | I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist. | 104 |
Wendell Berry | 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. | 104 |
Werner Heisenberg | Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves. | 104 |
Anne Bronte | A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine. | 104 |
Auguste Rodin | There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect. | 104 |
Charles Eastman | The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character. | 104 |
Cyril Connolly | It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book. | 104 |
Johannes Kepler | Nature uses as little as possible of anything. | 104 |
John James Audubon | The Fur Company may be called the exterminating medium of these wild and almost uninhabitable regions, which cupidity or the love of money alone would induce man to venture into. Where can I now go and find nature undisturbed? | 104 |
John Marshall | When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. The people can act only by their agents and, within the powers conferred upon them, their acts must be considered as the acts of the people. | 104 |
Lucy Larcom | Whether rich or poor, a home is not a home unless the roots of love are ever striking deeper through the crust of the earthly and the conventional, into the very realities of being, not consciously always; seldom, perhaps; the simplicity of loving grows by living simply near nature and God. | 104 |
Luther Burbank | If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. | 104 |
Philip Pullman | Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature. | 104 |
Philip Sidney | It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened. | 104 |
Geraldo Rivera | Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared. | 104 |
Max Beerbohm | To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. | 104 |
Robert Smithson | Nature is never finished. | 104 |
The Weeknd | I usually don't like to 'spoon feed' my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same. | 104 |
Theophrastus | We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology, their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life. | 104 |
Radhanath Swami | Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills. | 104 |
Robert Wilson Lynd | There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. | 104 |
John Fowles | In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. | 104 |
Carl Sagan | If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. | 105 |
Frederick Douglass | It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. | 105 |
Leo Buscaglia | I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. | 105 |
Paulo Coelho | I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature. | 105 |
Rabindranath Tagore | The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. | 105 |
Salvador Dali | Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them. | 105 |
P. T. Barnum | Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain. | 105 |
Jane Austen | To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. | 105 |
John D. Rockefeller | I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. | 105 |
Mary Wollstonecraft | Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. | 105 |
Richard Bach | What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. | 105 |
Robert Louis Stevenson | It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. | 105 |
Antoni Gaudi | Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator. | 105 |
Bhumibol Adulyadej | Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us. | 105 |
Billy Corgan | I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there. | 105 |
Bryan Procter | Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne. | 105 |
Carl von Clausewitz | I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together. | 105 |
Claude Monet | I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. | 105 |
Colin Mochrie | We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second. | 105 |
E. O. Wilson | When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. | 105 |
Franz Liszt | It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy. | 105 |
George Herbert Mead | To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation. | 105 |
Gretchen Rubin | Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers. | 105 |
Harriet Ann Jacobs | The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also. | 105 |
Honore de Balzac | Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God. | 105 |
Horace Walpole | Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. | 105 |
Ibrahim Babangida | It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line. | 105 |
Jacques Yves Cousteau | What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on. | 105 |
Jeremy Bentham | Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. | 105 |
Kin Hubbard | Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. | 105 |
Lindsay Lohan | Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me. | 105 |
Muhammad Iqbal | The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer. | 105 |
Paul Dirac | Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star. | 105 |
Pedro Calderon de la Barca | What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird? | 105 |
Roy H. Williams | String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect. | 105 |
Samuel Smiles | Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers. | 105 |
Sharon Salzberg | Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be. | 105 |
Stephen Gardiner | The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature. | 105 |
Susan Cain | In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that's not something everyone can afford. | 105 |
Adam Weishaupt | And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it. | 105 |
Alfred Austin | There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. | 105 |
Apolo Ohno | Japan, not only a mega-busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must travel outside of Tokyo to truly experience the 'old Japan' and more importantly feel these aspects of Japanese culture. | 105 |
Auguste Rodin | To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth. | 105 |
Edward Steichen | I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself. | 105 |
Jessamyn West | Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract. | 105 |
John Lubbock | Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. | 105 |
Josiah Gilbert Holland | Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature. | 105 |
Marian Anderson | None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath. | 105 |
Matthew Arnold | Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. | 105 |
Pam Brown | For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours. | 105 |
Plautus | The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money. | 105 |
Roy Bean | And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun. | 105 |
Russell Baker | Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. | 105 |
Augustus Hare | Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. | 105 |
Dorothy Thompson | Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy. | 105 |
Jake Gyllenhaal | I am inherently a little brother - that's just my nature. It has to do with my sister being very strong and wanting to protect me. It's the natural order of things. | 105 |
Jilly Cooper | I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows. | 105 |
Ray Comfort | Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself. | 105 |
Radhanath Swami | The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine. | 105 |
Sri Aurobindo | Hidden nature is secret God. | 105 |
Sara Teasdale | Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup. | 105 |
John Webster | Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together. | 105 |
Bjork | In Reykjavik, Iceland, where I was born, you are in the middle of nature surrounded by mountains and ocean. But you are still in a capital in Europe. So I have never understood why I have to choose between nature or urban. | 106 |
Henry A. Kissinger | It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. | 106 |
Robin Williams | Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!' | 106 |
Isaac Bashevis Singer | What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it. | 106 |
Alexander Pope | The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres. | 106 |
James Madison | What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. | 106 |
Jimmy Carter | It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever. | 106 |
John Keats | The poetry of the earth is never dead. | 106 |
Marcus Garvey | God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement. | 106 |
Alan Greenspan | Every economy exists, no matter what the level of democracy, has elements of crony capitalism. It's - given human nature and given the democratic structures, which we all, I assume, adhere to, that is an inevitable consequence. | 106 |
Annie Besant | The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost indefinitely strengthened, but yet it does appear to me that the bent to worship is an integral part of man's nature. | 106 |
Antonio Porchia | Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow. | 106 |
Brian Greene | Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture. | 106 |
Carl von Clausewitz | Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating. | 106 |
Cesar Millan | A dog is a vehicle, you know; a dog is a window to Mother Nature, and that's the closest species we have. | 106 |
Claude Monet | I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. | 106 |
Daniel Boone | Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight. | 106 |
Diane Ackerman | Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable. | 106 |
Duke Ellington | Gray skies are just clouds passing over. | 106 |
Graham Greene | Human nature is not black and white but black and grey. | 106 |
Hans Hofmann | Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind. | 106 |
Helena Blavatsky | It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead. | 106 |
Izaak Walton | Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art. | 106 |
Laurence J. Peter | Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away. | 106 |
Mahavira | All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities. | 106 |
Nicolas Chamfort | When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws. | 106 |
Oliver Cromwell | Nature can do more than physicians. | 106 |
Orison Swett Marden | The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. | 106 |
Pedro Calderon de la Barca | These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms. | 106 |
Robert Delaunay | Painting is by nature a luminous language. | 106 |
Samuel Adams | The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. | 106 |
Thornton Wilder | Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. | 106 |
Umberto Eco | A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. | 106 |
Vinoba Bhave | If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order. | 106 |
William Bartram | My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view. | 106 |
William Hazlitt | We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. | 106 |
Yoko Ono | Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. | 106 |
Auguste Rodin | The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him. | 106 |
Bruce Lipton | Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you're getting insights about God. | 106 |
Chen Shui-bian | Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest. | 106 |
George William Curtis | Nature makes woman to be won and men to win. | 106 |
Jerome K. Jerome | I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed. | 106 |
Joyce Carol Oates | Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light. | 106 |
Richard Jefferies | This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness. | 106 |
Roland Barthes | To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality. | 106 |
Thomas Browne | All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. | 106 |
William C. Bryant | To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language. | 106 |
John Coltrane | All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws. | 106 |
Margaret Chan | Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution. | 106 |
Gerard Manley Hopkins | Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing. | 106 |
P. D. James | It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. | 106 |
Bernard Meltzer | Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best. | 106 |
Joseph Wood Krutch | The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only. | 106 |
Socrates | He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. | 107 |
John Muir | Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. | 107 |
Toni Morrison | All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. | 107 |
Christopher Columbus | The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it. | 107 |
William Wordsworth | For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity. | 107 |
Alan Greenspan | Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff. | 107 |
Andy Goldsworthy | Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer. | 107 |
Anthony Hopkins | We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. | 107 |
Antoni Gaudi | There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners. | 107 |
Brigham Young | Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere. | 107 |
Christopher Morley | It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature. | 107 |
George Washington Carver | I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. | 107 |
Harry Emerson Fosdick | He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. | 107 |
Heinrich Heine | Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means. | 107 |
Henry Fielding | All nature wears one universal grin. | 107 |
Hugh Hefner | I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever. | 107 |
Joseph Addison | The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. | 107 |
Margaret Fuller | Nature provides exceptions to every rule. | 107 |
Mary Shelley | The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more. | 107 |
Nikita Khrushchev | Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man. | 107 |
Paul Cezanne | Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. | 107 |
Phyllis Schlafly | Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature. | 107 |
Rose Kennedy | Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? | 107 |
Samuel Smiles | The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. | 107 |
V. S. Naipaul | The world is always in movement. | 107 |
Werner Heisenberg | What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. | 107 |
Whoopi Goldberg | That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in. | 107 |
Will Durant | Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal. | 107 |
Willa Cather | I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. | 107 |
Willie Stargell | I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop. | 107 |
Hosea Ballou | Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains. | 107 |
John Shelby Spong | When I grew up in the South, I was taught that segregation was the will of God, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that women were by nature in inferior to men, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that it was okay to hate other religions, and especially the Jews, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. | 107 |
Juvenal | Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. | 107 |
Luigi Pirandello | Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels. | 107 |
Jose Ortega y Gasset | Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else. | 107 |
Louis Nizer | A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art. | 107 |
A. R. Ammons | In nature there are few sharp lines. | 107 |
Benjamin Franklin | Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. | 108 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. | 108 |
Voltaire | What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. | 108 |
e. e. cummings | The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. | 108 |
Elvis Presley | It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can. | 108 |
Gottfried Leibniz | Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality. | 108 |
H. P. Lovecraft | But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean. | 108 |
Isaac Asimov | To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. | 108 |
John Muir | God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. | 108 |
John Stuart Mill | The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it. | 108 |
Stephen Bannon | I could not think higher of Governor Palin. She is a force of nature and has inspired a generation of women to really get actively involved in politics and, more importantly, take their culture back and take their country back. | 108 |
Vincent Van Gogh | For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. | 108 |
Walt Whitman | Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. | 108 |
P. T. Barnum | Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation. | 108 |
Ansel Adams | Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. | 108 |
Jane Austen | They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. | 108 |
Andy Goldsworthy | Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality. | 108 |
Bodhidharma | To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion. | 108 |
Bryan Cranston | I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against the law of nature. | 108 |
Carrie Fisher | So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought he was trying to get out of treating me. But he was also responding to the chaotic nature of my life. | 108 |
David Bailey | The skull is nature's sculpture. | 108 |
Desiderius Erasmus | Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another's. | 108 |
E. B. White | I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. | 108 |
H. G. Wells | Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. | 108 |
Hans Hofmann | My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature. | 108 |
John Milton | Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship. | 108 |
Marquis de Sade | Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced. | 108 |
Mason Cooley | Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. | 108 |
Michael J. Fox | Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all. | 108 |
Oliver Goldsmith | Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! | 108 |
Robert Delaunay | Nature engenders the science of painting. | 108 |
Sholom Aleichem | Gossip is nature's telephone. | 108 |
Truman Capote | Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life. | 108 |
Aldo Leopold | In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them. | 108 |
Auguste Rodin | Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated. | 108 |
Mark Hyman | Stay away from milk. It is nature's perfect food - but only if you are a calf. | 108 |
May Sarton | Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. | 108 |
John McCarthy | When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising. | 108 |
Clarence Day | We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways. | 108 |
Khalil Gibran | Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. | 109 |
Arthur Schopenhauer | Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies. | 109 |
Baruch Spinoza | Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd. | 109 |
Martin Luther | For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. | 109 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson | And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men. | 109 |
Henry Ward Beecher | Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. | 109 |
Mao Zedong | Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend. | 109 |
Marie Curie | All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. | 109 |
Sai Baba | Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God. | 109 |
William Wordsworth | The ocean is a mighty harmonist. | 109 |
Alice Walker | In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. | 109 |
Ambrose Bierce | Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. | 109 |
Arthur C. Clarke | Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. | 109 |
Camille Paglia | High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. | 109 |
Edward Abbey | Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. | 109 |
Gunter Grass | I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn. | 109 |
Henri Poincare | If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment. | 109 |
Jules Verne | We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. | 109 |
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her. | 109 |
Nicolas Chamfort | Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent. | 109 |
Orison Swett Marden | Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. | 109 |
Shimon Peres | Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live. | 109 |
William Cowper | Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. | 109 |
Andrew Weil | Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern life probably plays a significant role in the epidemic incidence of depression today. Many studies show that depressed patients who stick to a regimen of aerobic exercise improve as much as those treated with medication. | 109 |
Hosea Ballou | Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. | 109 |
John Lubbock | Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven. | 109 |
Frank Lloyd Wright | I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. | 110 |
Franz Kafka | You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid. | 110 |
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. | 110 |
John Muir | In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. | 110 |
Thomas Aquinas | By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. | 110 |
Dante Alighieri | Nature is the art of God. | 110 |
Orson Welles | Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature. | 110 |
Anthony Hopkins | I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one's nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves. | 110 |
Diogenes | The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted. | 110 |
Dmitri Mendeleev | We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature, and to bring life into harmony with the laws of nature. | 110 |
Emile Durkheim | One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. | 110 |
Garrison Keillor | Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. | 110 |
George MacDonald | It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. | 110 |
Jacques Yves Cousteau | The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it. | 110 |
Jose Marti | But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible. | 110 |
Paramahansa Yogananda | Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevent all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Yoga cannot know a barrier of East and West any more than does the healing and equitable light of the sun. | 110 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 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. | 110 |
Stephen Sondheim | I have, by nature, an analytical mind. | 110 |
Auguste Rodin | To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. | 110 |
William C. Bryant | There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by. | 110 |
Emily Dickinson | To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. | 111 |
Galileo Galilei | The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. | 111 |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves. | 111 |
John Muir | The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. | 111 |
William James | The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. | 111 |
Henry Ward Beecher | Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. | 111 |
John Keats | Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer. | 111 |
Michel de Montaigne | If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it. | 111 |
Sai Baba | Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them. | 111 |
Aleister Crowley | Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. | 111 |
Alexander Smith | Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. | 111 |
Denis Diderot | No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings. | 111 |
Diane Ackerman | Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. | 111 |
Edvard Munch | Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul. | 111 |
John Burroughs | Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. | 111 |
Jules Verne | The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. | 111 |
Liam Neeson | For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable. | 111 |
Mick Jagger | The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone. | 111 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | Moonlight is sculpture. | 111 |
Neil Young | I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature. | 111 |
Niels Bohr | It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature. | 111 |
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. | 111 |
Robert Green Ingersoll | In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. | 111 |
Tom Hanks | When I work, a lot of times I have to lose weight, and I do that, but in my regular life I was not eating right, and I was not getting enough exercise. But by the nature of my diet and that lifestyle - boom! The end result was high blood sugars that reach the levels where it becomes Type 2 diabetes. I share that with a gajillion other people. | 111 |
Baruch Spinoza | Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow. | 112 |
Bjork | Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead. | 112 |
Hunter S. Thompson | I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware. | 112 |
Al Gore | I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature. | 112 |
Arthur C. Clarke | How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. | 112 |
Christina Aguilera | I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity. | 112 |
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton | Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own. | 112 |
Elizabeth I | Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts. | 112 |
Emily Bronte | I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide. | 112 |
Hal Borland | You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. | 112 |
James Dean | I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed. | 112 |
Kin Hubbard | A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower. | 112 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | Sunlight is painting. | 112 |
Neil Armstrong | I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream. | 112 |
Wallace Stevens | The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening. | 112 |
William C. Bryant | Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings. | 112 |
William Shakespeare | One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. | 113 |
Emily Dickinson | How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! | 113 |
Nikola Tesla | As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway. | 113 |
Iris Murdoch | People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. | 113 |
Kofi Annan | We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step. | 113 |
Adam Smith | Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence. | 113 |
Aesop | It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. | 113 |
Zora Neale Hurston | The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor. | 113 |
Baltasar Gracian | Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art. | 113 |
Bodhidharma | To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature. | 113 |
Charles Baudelaire | I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial. | 113 |
Friedrich Schiller | Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. | 113 |
Gustav Mahler | Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again. | 113 |
Heraclitus | Nature is wont to hide herself. | 113 |
Herbert Spencer | The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing. | 113 |
Martha Graham | I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being. | 113 |
Paramahansa Yogananda | The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy. | 113 |
Paul Cezanne | We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature. | 113 |
Satchel Paige | Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. | 113 |
Zaha Hadid | For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK. | 113 |
David Gerrold | Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations. | 113 |
Alexander Hamilton | The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased. | 114 |
Andy Warhol | Land really is the best art. | 114 |
Bob Marley | Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me. | 114 |
Frank Lloyd Wright | Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. | 114 |
Vincent Van Gogh | It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures. | 114 |
Ansel Adams | To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things. | 114 |
Bono | As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. | 114 |
Tom Stoppard | I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process. | 114 |
Annie Leibovitz | I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed. | 114 |
Ezra Taft Benson | One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others' weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all - to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high. | 114 |
Gustav Mahler | With the coming of spring, I am calm again. | 114 |
Henry Adams | Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. | 114 |
J. Paul Getty | Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses. | 114 |
Jacques Yves Cousteau | The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult. | 114 |
Muhammad Iqbal | I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon. | 114 |
William C. Bryant | The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at. | 114 |
Bjork | Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison. | 115 |
Edmund Burke | We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. | 115 |
Francis Bacon | We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. | 115 |
John Muir | I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. | 115 |
Joseph Campbell | The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. | 115 |
Lord Byron | I love not man the less, but Nature more. | 115 |
Rabindranath Tagore | Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. | 115 |
Simon Sinek | Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born smarter than the rest of us. Whether we like it or not, Mother Nature does not dole these characteristics out evenly. | 115 |
Thomas Hobbes | In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. | 115 |
Antoine de Saint-Exupery | The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. | 115 |
Dante Alighieri | Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. | 115 |
Langston Hughes | Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. | 115 |
R. Buckminster Fuller | There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. | 115 |
Al Gore | Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. | 115 |
John Kenneth Galbraith | The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. | 115 |
Leon Trotsky | The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself. | 115 |
Michio Kaku | Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which we scientists draw our nourishment and energy. And also, learn the math. Math is the language of nature, so we have to learn this language. | 115 |
Mikhail Bakunin | The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual. | 115 |
Doug Larson | Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. | 115 |
William C. Bryant | Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring? | 115 |
Aldous Huxley | My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. | 116 |
Euripides | There is the sky, which is all men's together. | 116 |
Jonathan Swift | Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. | 116 |
Richard P. Feynman | Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. | 116 |
Anatole France | Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil. | 116 |
George Washington Carver | Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God. | 116 |
J. Paul Getty | A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature. | 116 |
John Updike | Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. | 116 |
Lauryn Hill | Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process. | 116 |
Walter Scott | Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. | 116 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole. | 117 |
Walt Disney | I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. | 117 |
Baruch Spinoza | Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature. | 117 |
Coco Chanel | Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. | 117 |
Epictetus | It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. | 117 |
Neil deGrasse Tyson | Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival. | 117 |
Vincent Van Gogh | When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. | 117 |
Adam Smith | To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. | 117 |
Hannah Arendt | It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. | 117 |
William Wordsworth | Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. | 117 |
Alice Walker | I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe. | 117 |
Bodhidharma | Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial. | 117 |
Guru Nanak | Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God. | 117 |
J. Paul Getty | In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people. | 117 |
Joseph Conrad | Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life. | 117 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. | 117 |
Edgar Allan Poe | Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.' | 118 |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. | 118 |
Walt Whitman | I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. | 118 |
Stephen King | Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us. | 118 |
Charles Baudelaire | Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances. | 118 |
Plato | To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less. | 119 |
Ansel Adams | There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. | 119 |
Georgia O'Keeffe | I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. | 119 |
John Ruskin | The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. | 119 |
William Wordsworth | The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours. | 119 |
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross | Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. | 119 |
Moliere | The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. | 119 |
Robert Green Ingersoll | I concluded that all religions had the same foundation - a belief in the supernatural - a power above nature that man could influence by worship - by sacrifice and prayer. | 119 |
Washington Irving | An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. | 119 |
Helen Keller | To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. | 120 |
Charles Dickens | Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. | 120 |
H. P. Lovecraft | Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time. | 120 |
Karl Marx | It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves. | 120 |
Leonardo da Vinci | Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason. | 120 |
Swami Vivekananda | External nature is only internal nature writ large. | 120 |
Thomas Hobbes | Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves. | 120 |
Julius Caesar | I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory. | 120 |
R. Buckminster Fuller | Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. | 120 |
H. G. Wells | Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him. | 120 |
Helen Rowland | Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them. | 120 |
Paul Cezanne | Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. | 120 |
Samuel Butler | Self-preservation is the first law of nature. | 120 |
Steven Pinker | A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature. | 120 |
William Ellery Channing | The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. | 120 |
Bertrand Russell | I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. | 121 |
Franz Kafka | Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so. | 121 |
H. P. Lovecraft | Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. | 121 |
Richard P. Feynman | Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet. | 121 |
Miguel de Cervantes | That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not. | 121 |
Muhammad Iqbal | The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time. | 121 |
Aristotle | In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. | 122 |
Aldous Huxley | Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. | 122 |
Frank Lloyd Wright | God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see. | 122 |
Niccolo Machiavelli | To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people. | 122 |
Nikola Tesla | Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge. | 122 |
Kevin Mitnick | Hackers are becoming more sophisticated in conjuring up new ways to hijack your system by exploiting technical vulnerabilities or human nature. Don't become the next victim of unscrupulous cyberspace intruders. | 122 |
Henry Ward Beecher | Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. | 122 |
John Ruskin | It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. | 122 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | The Amen of nature is always a flower. | 122 |
Samuel Johnson | He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade. | 122 |
Carl Sandburg | Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder. | 122 |
Henri Frederic Amiel | He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life. | 122 |
W. Somerset Maugham | The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. | 122 |
Wendell Berry | I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. | 122 |
Henry David Thoreau | There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. | 123 |
Voltaire | The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. | 123 |
Arthur Schopenhauer | Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. | 123 |
Saint Augustine | Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. | 123 |
Soren Kierkegaard | The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. | 123 |
Anton Chekhov | Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit. | 123 |
Rainer Maria Rilke | Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. | 123 |
Richard P. Feynman | For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. | 123 |
Jean Paul | Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. | 123 |
Helen Keller | Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. | 124 |
Alan Watts | In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. | 124 |
Isaac Newton | Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space. | 124 |
Nikola Tesla | The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified. | 124 |
Richard M. Nixon | In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars. | 124 |
Walt Whitman | After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. | 124 |
Alexander Pope | All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. | 124 |
Dave Barry | Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business. | 124 |
Marcel Proust | Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. | 124 |
Edward Abbey | For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! | 124 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. | 124 |
Paul Cezanne | I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature. | 124 |
Mahatma Gandhi | The good man is the friend of all living things. | 125 |
Leo Tolstoy | One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. | 125 |
Noam Chomsky | If you're in favour of any policy - reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever - if you're at least minimally moral, it's because you think it's somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature. | 125 |
Vincent Van Gogh | I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream. | 125 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson | Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. | 125 |
John Keats | There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. | 125 |
Marilyn Manson | All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from. | 125 |
Alice Walker | I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. | 125 |
Havelock Ellis | The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. | 125 |
Steven Pinker | Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. | 125 |
Wallace Stevens | Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! | 125 |
W. H. Auden | 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' | 201 |
Rudyard Kipling | Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. | 201 |
Alexander Hamilton | The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. | 202 |
Marcus Aurelius | The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. | 202 |
John Adams | All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. | 202 |
Michelangelo | My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness. | 202 |
Sitting Bull | The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love. | 202 |
Tennessee Williams | The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. | 202 |
William Wordsworth | Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. | 202 |
Nikola Tesla | The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. | 203 |
Thomas Merton | By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. | 203 |
Michel de Montaigne | Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. | 203 |
Sophocles | No speech can stain what is noble by nature. | 203 |
Francis Bacon | Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience. | 204 |
Woody Allen | As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. | 204 |
Aristotle | If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. | 205 |
Henry David Thoreau | Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. | 205 |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca | A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. | 205 |
Marcus Aurelius | Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them. | 206 |
Walt Disney | You can't just let nature run wild. | 206 |
Leonardo da Vinci | Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. | 206 |
William James | The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. | 207 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing. | 207 |
George Santayana | To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. | 208 |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca | For greed all nature is too little. | 208 |
Marcus Aurelius | That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. | 209 |
Plato | He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. | 209 |
Warren Buffett | Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation. | 209 |
Samuel Johnson | He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. | 209 |
Albert Einstein | Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. | 210 |
C. S. Lewis | Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. | 210 |
Bob Dylan | I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay. | 210 |
William Blake | The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. | 210 |
Jane Austen | Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of. | 210 |
Robert Louis Stevenson | I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. | 210 |
Aristotle | Nature does nothing in vain. | 211 |
Henry David Thoreau | The bluebird carries the sky on his back. | 211 |
Walt Disney | All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. | 211 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art. | 211 |
Charles Dickens | To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart. | 212 |
Edgar Allan Poe | It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. | 212 |
George W. Bush | Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods. | 212 |
Leonardo da Vinci | To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another. | 212 |
Malcolm X | Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power. | 212 |
Victor Hugo | What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. | 212 |
Thomas Carlyle | The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better. | 212 |
Henry David Thoreau | Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. | 213 |
Francis Bacon | Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. | 213 |
Niccolo Machiavelli | Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds. | 213 |
Zig Ziglar | I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives. | 213 |
Edmund Burke | There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations. | 214 |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca | All art is but imitation of nature. | 214 |
Albert Camus | Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature. | 215 |
Thomas Paine | But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing. | 215 |
Anton Chekhov | The sea has neither meaning nor pity. | 215 |
Blaise Pascal | The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. | 216 |
Walt Whitman | A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. | 216 |
Adlai E. Stevenson | Nature is neutral. | 216 |
Albert Einstein | Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. | 217 |
Jean-Paul Sartre | Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices. | 217 |
C. S. Lewis | What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God. | 218 |
Charles Dickens | Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. | 218 |
Albert Schweitzer | Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. | 219 |
Marcus Aurelius | Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. | 220 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The earth laughs in flowers. | 220 |
Henry Ward Beecher | To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. | 220 |
Henry David Thoreau | If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. | 222 |
Lao Tzu | Nature is not human hearted. | 223 |
Victor Hugo | Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh. | 224 |
Samuel Butler | A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. | 225 |
Plato | No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. | 226 |
Victor Hugo | Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. | 226 |
Marcus Tullius Cicero | Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature. | 226 |
Francis Bacon | Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. | 301 |
Lao Tzu | Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. | 302 |
Marcus Aurelius | Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. | 302 |
Winston Churchill | Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. | 302 |
Woody Allen | I am two with nature. | 302 |
Joseph Conrad | This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. | 302 |
Marcus Aurelius | Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. | 303 |
William Shakespeare | And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. | 303 |
Napoleon Hill | Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price. | 303 |
Marilyn Monroe | Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature. | 304 |
Blaise Pascal | Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. | 305 |
Stephen Hawking | There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature. | 305 |
Benjamin Disraeli | Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness. | 306 |
Jimmy Carter | Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. | 309 |
Plato | All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. | 311 |
Thomas Jefferson | There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. | 312 |
Joseph B. Wirthlin | Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the storms may be. | 317 |
Aristotle | All men by nature desire knowledge. | 318 |
Voltaire | We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature. | 318 |
Aristotle | Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. | 320 |
Lao Tzu | It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins. | 322 |
Voltaire | Nature has always had more force than education. | 322 |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca | What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat. | 322 |
Aristotle | For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all. | 323 |
Napoleon Bonaparte | If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. | 325 |
Francis Bacon | The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. | 402 |
Victor Hugo | Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise. | 402 |
Neil deGrasse Tyson | Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature. | 407 |
Oscar Wilde | No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone. | 408 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear. | 408 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves. | 409 |
Marcus Tullius Cicero | Nature abhors annihilation. | 411 |
Abraham Lincoln | 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. | 412 |
Abraham Lincoln | It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them. | 413 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. | 414 |
Alexander Pope | Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground. | 414 |
Aristotle | Man is by nature a political animal. | 419 |
Mahatma Gandhi | We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop. | 420 |
Abraham Lincoln | Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak. | 421 |
Ambrose Bierce | Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond. | 423 |
Albert Einstein | Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature. | 426 |
William Shakespeare | Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time. | 501 |
William Shakespeare | Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. | 512 |
Friedrich Nietzsche | Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. | 517 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. | 521 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. | 524 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. | 525 |
Albert Einstein | It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature. | 601 |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. | 607 |
Mahatma Gandhi | Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. | 610 |
Albert Einstein | We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. | 709 |
Mark Twain | In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. | 804 |
George Bernard Shaw | Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. | 816 |
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