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Ingrid BergmanA kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. 22
Alexander HamiltonThere is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.101
Ralph Waldo EmersonNature always wears the colors of the spirit. 101
Albert CamusAutumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. 101
George SantayanaThe family is one of nature's masterpieces. 101
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. 101
HippocratesEverything in excess is opposed to nature.101
John MuirKeep 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 ByronThere 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 FrostThe woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. 101
Saint Teresa of AvilaThe tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. 101
Vladimir NabokovThe breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea. 101
Langston HughesLet the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.101
William WordsworthCome forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. 101
Ai WeiweiEveryone 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 LeibovitzNature 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 LavoisierI consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.101
BeckArt 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 DiorYou can never really go wrong if you take nature as an example.101
Christopher AlexanderThis 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 BaldingIf 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 LoveI'm not a woman. I'm a force of nature.101
Denis DiderotThere 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. ForsterWhat 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. WilsonNature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. 101
Edouard ManetThere are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.101
Edward AbbeyMay 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. CioranWhat would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?101
EuclidThe laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.101
Frank B. KelloggIt is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day. 101
Frans de WaalThe 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 StarkCuriosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.101
Gerard WayIt is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.101
Giorgio VasariIn 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 BorlandKnowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.101
Hans Christian AndersenJust living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. 101
Henri MatisseThere are always flowers for those who want to see them. 101
Jacques Yves CousteauThe sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. 101
John DonneNature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.101
Karel CapekAny 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 ArmstrongIt'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 SadeAll, 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 FaradayNothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature. 101
Nicholas NegroponteNature 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
NovalisNature is a petrified magic city. 101
Octavio PazLiterature 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 PrattThe 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
ParacelsusThe art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.101
Paul JohnsonGermany'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 BarcaGreen is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. 101
Richard LouvWe 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 BrowningI trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.101
Robert DelaunayArt in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.101
Robert RedfordPart 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 LecYouth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. 101
Steven PinkerWith violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.101
Suzanne CollinsOne 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 WilliamsBaseball 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 RoethkeOver every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. 101
Tom HanksTruth 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 BettiThere is no forgiveness in nature.101
Vilayanur S. RamachandranScience 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
VitruviusConsistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.101
Wallace StevensIn the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.101
Wendell BerryTo cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.101
Zac EfronI'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 AustinThe 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 FoldsThe 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 FristSpace 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 IvesThe 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 ConleyIn general, I'm not much into etiquette and am a rule-breaker and rebel by nature.101
Chiwetel EjioforThe 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 MichalsPhotographers 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 ThorndikeTo 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 RootThere 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 BowenAutumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.101
Ella MaillartI had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.101
Grace GealeyI 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 MartineauIt is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.101
Helen GarnerThe 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 WallacePeople 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 StanleyThe sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.101
Hjalmar BrantingFraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature.101
Jenny McCarthyParents 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 JettI'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 DrydenSelf-defence is Nature's eldest law.101
Jules RenardOn earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. 101
Kenneth R. MillerI 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 KellyThe 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 HuntColors are the smiles of nature. 101
Louie SchwartzbergBeauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.101
Lucy LarcomNo 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. KuninWhen 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 MaeterlinckOur reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.101
Norman MacCaigI'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.101
Robert CrumbI 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 CavalliLeopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.101
Roy BeanAnd finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.101
Rudolf SteinerAll 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 LewisWinter is not a season, it's an occupation.101
Tom ShadyacThere'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 VilsackTechnology 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 GilbertWe are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.101
Walter LangIf 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 HuntThe mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.101
Aasif MandviI 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 NewmanAny art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.101
Chantal SutherlandSo 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 HeyerdahlMother Nature is the great equalizer. You can't get away from it.101
Eleonora DuseIf 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 AppellAnd the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.101
Emily CarrTrees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.101
Gary SpeedEverybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.101
Gerard De NervalEvery flower is a soul blossoming in nature. 101
Harry CrewsThere 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 ReasonerThe 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 RussellJust 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. KendallIf 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 GiraudouxThe flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.101
Loren EiseleyOne could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.101
Ma JunOn 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 ChanThe unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation.101
Miriam MakebaI 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 FiguerasPolo 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 BeardThe last thing left in nature is the beauty of women.101
Pierre SchaefferSound is the vocabulary of nature.101
Randy TravisI'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 RussoI 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 SkaggsThe 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 BernhardThe 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 SmithWhatever 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 ReidBut 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 TrebekIf you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.101
Ann DruyanFor 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 PabloI'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 ClarkSharks are among the most perfectly constructed creatures in nature. Some forms have survived for two hundred million years.101
Hal BoyleWhat 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 GarlandI 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 RousseauNothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.101
Henry BestonThe 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 RutherfordThe earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.101
Liu XiaoboFree 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 JohnsonThe sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire. 101
Paul TaylorI 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 KalyanNature, 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 DavisThe sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet. 101
Roger MillerSome people walk in the rain, others just get wet. 101
Thomas HoodI saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.101
Alex Van HalenIt'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 MaupinI haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.101
Christopher GadsdenMy 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 SuarezWe 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 GibsonI 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 BerneThe 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 KingstonMarriage 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 BowenI'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have.101
Lene HauPhysics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues.101
Louis AgassizThe study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.101
Monica RaymundLittle 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-MannFor me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations.101
PatanjaliYoga 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 ReinerA lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.101
Joshua ReynoldsA mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.101
Mercy Otis WarrenIt may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.101
Mo YanA 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 MillerI was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.101
Sidney HookWisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.101
Thomas EakinsThe big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.101
Thomas GuthrieAs in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.101
Thomas R. KellyWe 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. KaoMaybe 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 OttoA child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.101
Charles Brenton HugginsNature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.101
Ruth ParkHe 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 HeRelaxing, 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 SisleyI like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.101
Andrew BernsteinNothing 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 HererGrowing 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 HoweGod forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.101
Max BillEven 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 GaramendiMother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.101
Joakim NoahIt'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 MerianArt 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 GunnIn 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 RileyWhen 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 DavisWe 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 EinsteinLook deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. 102
Dale CarnegieOne 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 EliotDelicious 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 LeibnizFor 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 MuirThe clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. 102
Nikola TeslaModern 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. LawrenceThe fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. 102
Dennis PragerThere 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 StepanekSunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second. 102
Robert Baden-PowellJuvenile 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 NobelHope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.102
Andy GoldsworthyMy 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 VoskampI 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'AngeloWherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. 102
Antoine LavoisierWe 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 GaudiNothing is art if it does not come from nature.102
Benjamin BrittenIt 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 BaudelaireNature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.102
Chris HadfieldThe 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 DiorMy dream is to save women from nature.102
Claude DebussyThere 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 HammarskjoldNever measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.102
Edward YoungThe course of Nature is the art of God.102
Ellsworth HuntingtonNo 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 MorozovThe 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 SoddyNature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful.102
Friedrich SchleiermacherNow 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 BrunoThere 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 JacksonI know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.102
Henrik IbsenA forest bird never wants a cage.102
John BurroughsHow beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.102
Judy GarlandBehind every cloud is another cloud. 102
Lex LugerI 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
LivyMany difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.102
Louis AragonWe know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.102
Max PlanckScience 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 PollanA lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.102
Mikhail GorbachevWe 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 MurthyScience is about unravelling nature.102
Oscar RobertsonI'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 RyanOur 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 DelaunayLight in Nature creates the movement of colors. 102
Roy RogersWhat's a butterfly garden without butterflies?102
Samuel ButlerHuman life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.102
Stella McCartneyThe 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 EarleWith 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 AndoWhen 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 CaldwellIt is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.102
Terry RileyMusic 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 RoethkeDeep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. 102
Thomas FrankGovernment 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 MartinThe 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 HumboldtI 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 BartramThe 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 HandyNature was my kindergarten.102
Xavier RuddFor 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 KusamaPolka 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 WeishauptWhen man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.102
Anne BronteIt 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 IvesA 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 TammetI 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 RakoffA 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 DeLilloThere's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.102
Eugene DelacroixNature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.102
Harmon KillebrewI'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 KeplerThe 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 AudubonDuring all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.102
Konstantin TsiolkovskyAll the universe is full of the lives of perfect creatures.102
Louie SchwartzbergI 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 RayOf 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 ChagallGreat art picks up where nature ends.102
Margaret CavendishA 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 ShermerThe 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 PetersonBirds 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 McIverI 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 TurkleThe 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 CampbellTis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.102
William AllinghamAutumn's the mellow time.102
William C. BryantThe 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 LoosBe truthful, nature only sides with truth.102
Annie Jump CannonTeaching 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 RileyFor me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.102
David MixnerAs 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 PaesRio 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 CoffinMiddle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.102
Karolina KurkovaMother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.102
Matsuo BashoThe temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. 102
Maurice RavelFor 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 BonnardArt will never be able to exist without nature.102
Steven WeinbergMaybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.102
Story MusgraveTheir 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 NasrinNature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!102
Thomas TusserSweet April showers do spring May flowers.102
Alan HovhanessI've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.102
Arthur KeithWhichever 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 TealeFor the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.102
Georg TraklI drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.102
Hamlin GarlandMy 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 MuniNature's far too subtle to repeat herself.102
Thomas WoodsCommunism brought out the worst in human nature and crippled people's ability or ambition to participate in a market economy.102
Tracee Ellis RossHere 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 HoodFrost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.102
Allan McNishEspecially 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 McDermottI 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 SeaburyNature 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 CharronGod, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.102
Ruth St. DenisWe have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.102
Charles MackayThere 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. RyleSanctification 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 ThomsonI 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 RussellYou 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 DanielCustom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.102
Archibald AlexanderNature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.102
John McGrawMy boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.102
Matthew GreenThough pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way.102
Murray BartlettI'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 ChandrasekharThe 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 WebbNature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions. 102
Jean IngelowThe moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon. 102
Joyce KilmerI think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.102
John MuirThe mountains are calling and I must go. 103
Isak DinesenI 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 PragerHappiness 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 LovelaceI 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 LavoisierVegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.103
Arnold J. ToynbeeAs 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 WattersonIf people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.103
Charles LindberghIn wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.103
Egon SchieleI 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 LillyMy 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. LichtenbergWe 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 VanderbiltI 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 PoincareThe 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 AdamsChaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.103
Ivan TurgenevHowever much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.103
Joseph JoubertWhen you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.103
Kate BushI 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 SterneOnly the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.103
Lucy Maud MontgomeryTwilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.103
Marilyn FrenchNature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.103
Marlo ThomasI 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 DormerPerfect 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 YoungEarth is a flower and it's pollinating.103
Nicolas CageZoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating.103
Norman FosterThere'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 HenryWe 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 HonorePeople need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.103
Russell WilsonMy 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 PinkerThe 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 MooreAnd the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.103
William BartramHaving 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 DurerAs 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 EastmanNearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.103
Criss AngelMagic 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 MeadowsBiodiversity 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 LeonItalians 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 MichalsI 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 WhiteBats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.103
Guillaume ApollinaireWithout poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.103
John LubbockRest 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 JonesIt seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. 103
John Shelby SpongIt appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.103
Jon MeachamIf 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 SchwartzbergWhen 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 BaileySimplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.103
Randeep HoodaNone 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 PetersonI 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 ShriverThe roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.103
William C. BryantThe groves were God's first temples.103
Bai LingStorms 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 HicksThe fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.103
Jacques LacanFor the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.103
Jane Velez-MitchellNature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.103
Joseph ButlerThus 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 MerkleManufacturing 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 SmithsonParks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.103
Rosamund PikeNothing 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 LacyI think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.103
William Merritt ChaseYou 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 ClarkeNow 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 SimenonThe lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world. 103
Hamlin GarlandWhenever 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 ShannonIf 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 FroudeThe 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 WoodringA tree is an incomprehensible mystery.103
Malcolm de ChazalArt is nature speeded up and God slowed down.103
Samuel DanielThe stars that have most glory have no rest.103
John HoevenOn 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 RuehlNature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.103
Andre NortonThere's no night without stars.103
James MontgomeryBlue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?103
Mother TeresaWe 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 CamusIn the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. 104
Anne FrankThe 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 LeibnizNow 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 VinciWater is the driving force of all nature. 104
Thomas HobbesThe 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 PavlovIt 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 ShelleyO, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? 104
VirgilAs the twig is bent the tree inclines.104
Alexander PopeAll nature is but art unknown to thee.104
John RuskinSunshine 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. FeynmanReality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.104
Brian GreeneBlack 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 BronteIf you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.104
Christian Nestell BoveeTears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.104
Daniel KahnemanBy 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 RossPeople 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 MendeleevIt 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 YoungRead nature; nature is a friend to truth.104
Ellsworth HuntingtonWe are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.104
Evo MoralesThe 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 BorlandA 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 BurroughsI go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. 104
Lewis ThomasWe 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 FormichettiHaving 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 WallendaOne of the things I enjoy is the challenge of Mother Nature.104
Paul DaviesGeneral 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 ByrneWinter is nature's way of saying, 'Up yours.'104
Robert SchumannNature 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. HayesWars 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 AmbroseNothing 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 RideThe view of Earth is spectacular.104
Steven PinkerHuman 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 KempisPurity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.104
Thor HeyerdahlI 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 BerryWhether 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 HeisenbergNatural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.104
Anne BronteA light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine. 104
Auguste RodinThere 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 EastmanThe 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 ConnollyIt is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.104
Johannes KeplerNature uses as little as possible of anything.104
John James AudubonThe 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 MarshallWhen 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 LarcomWhether 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 BurbankIf you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.104
Philip PullmanArgue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.104
Philip SidneyIt is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.104
Geraldo RiveraMother 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 BeerbohmTo destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.104
Robert SmithsonNature is never finished.104
The WeekndI 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
TheophrastusWe 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 SwamiMother 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 LyndThere 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 FowlesIn 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 SaganIf you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. 105
Frederick DouglassIt 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 BuscagliaI still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.105
Paulo CoelhoI 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 TagoreThe butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. 105
Salvador DaliMistakes 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. BarnumMen, 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 AustenTo sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. 105
John D. RockefellerI 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 WollstonecraftLearn 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 BachWhat the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. 105
Robert Louis StevensonIt 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 GaudiThose who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.105
Bhumibol AdulyadejNature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us. 105
Billy CorganI 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 ProcterOh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.105
Carl von ClausewitzI 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 MonetI perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.105
Colin MochrieWe'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second.105
E. O. WilsonWhen you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.105
Franz LisztIt is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.105
George Herbert MeadTo 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 RubinNature 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 JacobsThe beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.105
Honore de BalzacClouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.105
Horace WalpolePlot, 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 BabangidaIt is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.105
Jacques Yves CousteauWhat 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 BenthamNature 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 HubbardDon'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 LohanBeauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.105
Muhammad IqbalThe scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.105
Paul DiracPick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.105
Pedro Calderon de la BarcaWhat 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. WilliamsString 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 SmilesMen 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 SalzbergThings 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 GardinerThe mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.105
Susan CainIn 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 WeishauptAnd 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 AustinThere 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 OhnoJapan, 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 RodinTo 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 SteichenI 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 WestMemory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.105
John LubbockEarth 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 HollandNature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.105
Marian AndersonNone 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 ArnoldBald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.105
Pam BrownFor 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
PlautusThe day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money. 105
Roy BeanAnd Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun.105
Russell BakerAh, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. 105
Augustus HareNothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.105
Dorothy ThompsonAge 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 GyllenhaalI 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 CooperI love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.105
Ray ComfortEvery 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 SwamiThe 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 AurobindoHidden nature is secret God.105
Sara TeasdaleLife 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 WebsterEagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.105
BjorkIn 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. KissingerIt was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.106
Robin WilliamsSpring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!' 106
Isaac Bashevis SingerWhat nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.106
Alexander PopeThe 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 MadisonWhat 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 CarterIt 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 KeatsThe poetry of the earth is never dead. 106
Marcus GarveyGod 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 GreenspanEvery 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 BesantThe 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 PorchiaFlowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.106
Brian GreeneNature'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 ClausewitzAlthough our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.106
Cesar MillanA dog is a vehicle, you know; a dog is a window to Mother Nature, and that's the closest species we have.106
Claude MonetI am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.106
Daniel BooneNature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.106
Diane AckermanHurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.106
Duke EllingtonGray skies are just clouds passing over.106
Graham GreeneHuman nature is not black and white but black and grey.106
Hans HofmannBeing inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.106
Helena BlavatskyIt 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 WaltonThose 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. PeterEvery girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.106
MahaviraAll souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.106
Nicolas ChamfortWhen 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 CromwellNature can do more than physicians.106
Orison Swett MardenThe Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.106
Pedro Calderon de la BarcaThese 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 DelaunayPainting is by nature a luminous language.106
Samuel AdamsThe 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 WilderNature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.106
Umberto EcoA 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 BhaveIf we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.106
William BartramMy 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 HazlittWe do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.106
Yoko OnoControversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.106
Auguste RodinThe 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 LiptonDeism 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-bianEven if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.106
George William CurtisNature makes woman to be won and men to win.106
Jerome K. JeromeI attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.106
Joyce Carol OatesNight comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.106
Richard JefferiesThis sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.106
Roland BarthesTo eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality.106
Thomas BrowneAll things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.106
William C. BryantTo him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.106
John ColtraneAll 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 ChanPandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.106
Gerard Manley HopkinsNothing 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. JamesIt was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.106
Bernard MeltzerUse 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 KrutchThe 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
SocratesHe is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. 107
John MuirEverybody 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 MorrisonAll water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. 107
Christopher ColumbusThe air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it.107
William WordsworthFor 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 GreenspanCorruption, 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 GoldsworthyOccasionally 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 HopkinsWe 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 GaudiThere are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.107
Brigham YoungNature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.107
Christopher MorleyIt is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.107
George Washington CarverI 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 FosdickHe 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 HeineLike a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.107
Henry FieldingAll nature wears one universal grin.107
Hugh HefnerI'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 AddisonThe 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 FullerNature provides exceptions to every rule.107
Mary ShelleyThe very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.107
Nikita KhrushchevSupport by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.107
Paul CezannePure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.107
Phyllis SchlaflyFeminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.107
Rose KennedyBirds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?107
Samuel SmilesThe 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. NaipaulThe world is always in movement.107
Werner HeisenbergWhat we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.107
Whoopi GoldbergThat's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.107
Will DurantNature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.107
Willa CatherI like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.107
Willie StargellI found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.107
Hosea BallouEnergy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.107
John Shelby SpongWhen 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
JuvenalNever does nature say one thing and wisdom another.107
Luigi PirandelloNature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels. 107
Jose Ortega y GassetLove is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.107
Louis NizerA beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.107
A. R. AmmonsIn nature there are few sharp lines.107
Benjamin FranklinMoney 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 EmersonA friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. 108
VoltaireWhat 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. cummingsThe world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. 108
Elvis PresleyIt's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.108
Gottfried LeibnizIndeed 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. LovecraftBut more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.108
Isaac AsimovTo insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.108
John MuirGod 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 MillThe 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 BannonI 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 GoghFor my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. 108
Walt WhitmanGive me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. 108
P. T. BarnumUnless 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 AdamsYosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.108
Jane AustenThey are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.108
Andy GoldsworthyEven in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.108
BodhidharmaTo 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 CranstonI 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 FisherSo 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 BaileyThe skull is nature's sculpture.108
Desiderius ErasmusNature, 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. WhiteI 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. WellsAdapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. 108
Hans HofmannMy 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 MiltonBeauty 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 SadeYour body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.108
Mason CooleyPsychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.108
Michael J. FoxZoos 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 GoldsmithRomance 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 DelaunayNature engenders the science of painting.108
Sholom AleichemGossip is nature's telephone.108
Truman CapoteLove is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life. 108
Aldo LeopoldIn 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 RodinArt 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 HymanStay away from milk. It is nature's perfect food - but only if you are a calf.108
May SartonEverything 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 McCarthyWhen thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.108
Clarence DayWe talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.108
Khalil GibranForget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. 109
Arthur SchopenhauerMen are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.109
Baruch SpinozaWhatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.109
Martin LutherFor 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 TennysonAnd out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.109
Henry Ward BeecherFlowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. 109
Mao ZedongLet a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.109
Marie CurieAll my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.109
Sai BabaLook 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 WordsworthThe ocean is a mighty harmonist.109
Alice WalkerIn nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.109
Ambrose BierceOcean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.109
Arthur C. ClarkeHuman judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.109
Camille PagliaHigh 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 AbbeyWilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. 109
Gunter GrassI'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 PoincareIf 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 VerneWe may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. 109
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelHe who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.109
Nicolas ChamfortNature 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 MardenForests, 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 PeresIsrael 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 CowperNature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.109
Andrew WeilHuman 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 BallouDisease is the retribution of outraged Nature.109
John LubbockSunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.109
Frank Lloyd WrightI believe in God, only I spell it Nature. 110
Franz KafkaYou 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 HegelMere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.110
John MuirIn every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. 110
Thomas AquinasBy nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.110
Dante AlighieriNature is the art of God. 110
Orson WellesRace hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.110
Anthony HopkinsI 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
DiogenesThe sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.110
Dmitri MendeleevWe 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 DurkheimOne 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 KeillorCats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.110
George MacDonaldIt 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 CousteauThe happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.110
Jose MartiBut 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 YoganandaYoga 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 ColeridgeA 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 SondheimI have, by nature, an analytical mind.110
Auguste RodinTo the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. 110
William C. BryantThere 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 DickinsonTo 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 GalileiThe 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 RousseauNature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.111
John MuirThe gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.111
William JamesThe deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.111
Henry Ward BeecherEvery artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. 111
John KeatsScenery is fine - but human nature is finer.111
Michel de MontaigneIf 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 BabaMan 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 CrowleyModern 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 SmithDeath is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.111
Denis DiderotNo man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.111
Diane AckermanNothing 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 MunchNature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.111
John BurroughsNature 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 VerneThe 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 NeesonFor all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.111
Mick JaggerThe 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 HawthorneMoonlight is sculpture.111
Neil YoungI'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 BohrIt 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 ChesterfieldGood breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.111
Robert Green IngersollIn nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.111
Tom HanksWhen 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 SpinozaNothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.112
BjorkCompared 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. ThompsonI 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 GoreI'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.112
Arthur C. ClarkeHow inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. 112
Christina AguileraI'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.112
Edward G. Bulwer-LyttonTruth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.112
Elizabeth IFear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.112
Emily BronteI'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.112
Hal BorlandYou 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 DeanI also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.112
Kin HubbardA bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.112
Nathaniel HawthorneSunlight is painting.112
Neil ArmstrongI 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 StevensThe 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. BryantGo forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.112
William ShakespeareOne touch of nature makes the whole world kin. 113
Emily DickinsonHow strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!113
Nikola TeslaAs 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 MurdochPeople from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.113
Kofi AnnanWe 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 SmithResentment 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
AesopIt is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. 113
Zora Neale HurstonThe man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.113
Baltasar GracianNature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.113
BodhidharmaTo find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.113
Charles BaudelaireI 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 SchillerArt is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.113
Gustav MahlerSpring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.113
HeraclitusNature is wont to hide herself.113
Herbert SpencerThe 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 GrahamI 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 YoganandaThe 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 CezanneWe must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.113
Satchel PaigeDon't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. 113
Zaha HadidFor 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 GerroldUnderstanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.113
Alexander HamiltonThe 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 WarholLand really is the best art.114
Bob MarleyEverything 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 WrightStudy nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. 114
Vincent Van GoghIt 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 AdamsTo 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
BonoAs 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 StoppardI 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 LeibovitzI wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.114
Ezra Taft BensonOne 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 MahlerWith the coming of spring, I am calm again.114
Henry AdamsKnowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.114
J. Paul GettyWhether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.114
Jacques Yves CousteauThe 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 IqbalI have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.114
William C. BryantThe little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.114
BjorkNature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.115
Edmund BurkeWe must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.115
Francis BaconWe cannot command Nature except by obeying her.115
John MuirI 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 CampbellThe goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.115
Lord ByronI love not man the less, but Nature more.115
Rabindranath TagoreTrees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. 115
Simon SinekSome 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 HobbesIn the state of nature profit is the measure of right.115
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyThe machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.115
Dante AlighieriArt, 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 HughesBeauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.115
R. Buckminster FullerThere is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. 115
Al GoreAirplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.115
John Kenneth GalbraithThe 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 TrotskyThe 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 KakuSome 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 BakuninThe 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 LarsonSpring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.115
William C. BryantWhere hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring?115
Aldous HuxleyMy father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.116
EuripidesThere is the sky, which is all men's together.116
Jonathan SwiftWhere there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.116
Richard P. FeynmanNature 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 FranceNature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.116
George Washington CarverReading 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 GettyA hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.116
John UpdikeRain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. 116
Lauryn HillSince 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 ScottUnless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.116
Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery 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 DisneyI don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.117
Baruch SpinozaNothing 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 ChanelNature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.117
EpictetusIt is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.117
Neil deGrasse TysonSpace exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.117
Vincent Van GoghWhen I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.117
Adam SmithTo 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 ArendtIt 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 WordsworthNature never did betray the heart that loved her. 117
Alice WalkerI 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
BodhidharmaOnce you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.117
Guru NanakEven Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.117
J. Paul GettyIn Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.117
Joseph ConradEach 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 HawthorneMountains are earth's undecaying monuments.117
Edgar Allan PoeWere 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 GoetheOne must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.118
Walt WhitmanI believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. 118
Stephen KingAmericans 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 BaudelaireNature 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
PlatoTo 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 AdamsThere 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'KeeffeI decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.119
John RuskinThe sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.119
William WordsworthThe 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-RossShould you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.119
MoliereThe trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. 119
Robert Green IngersollI 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 IrvingAn 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 KellerTo me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.120
Charles DickensNature 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. LovecraftOcean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.120
Karl MarxIt 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 VinciAlthough 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 VivekanandaExternal nature is only internal nature writ large. 120
Thomas HobbesSuch 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 CaesarI have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.120
R. Buckminster FullerNature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.120
H. G. WellsMan 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 RowlandEvery 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 CezannePainting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.120
Samuel ButlerSelf-preservation is the first law of nature.120
Steven PinkerA 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 ChanningThe 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 RussellI'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 KafkaSensual 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. LovecraftBlue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.121
Richard P. FeynmanEach 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 CervantesThat's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.121
Muhammad IqbalThe 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
AristotleIn all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. 122
Aldous HuxleyConsistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.122
Frank Lloyd WrightGod 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 MachiavelliTo 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 TeslaElectrical 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 MitnickHackers 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 BeecherGood nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.122
John RuskinIt 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 JohnsonHe that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.122
Carl SandburgLet the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder. 122
Henri Frederic AmielHe 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 MaughamThe 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 BerryI 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 ThoreauThere are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.123
VoltaireThe art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. 123
Arthur SchopenhauerPoliteness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.123
Saint AugustineMiracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.123
Soren KierkegaardThe function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.123
Anton ChekhovLet 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 RilkeEverything 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. FeynmanFor a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.123
Jean PaulSorrows 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 KellerSecurity 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 WattsIn 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 NewtonAbsolute 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 TeslaThe 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. NixonIn 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 WhitmanAfter 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 PopeAll are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.124
Dave BarryCamping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.124
Marcel ProustHabit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.124
Edward AbbeyFor 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 HawthorneOur most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. 124
Paul CezanneI lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.124
Mahatma GandhiThe good man is the friend of all living things. 125
Leo TolstoyOne of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.125
Noam ChomskyIf 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 GoghI 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 TennysonWords, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. 125
John KeatsThere 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 MansonAll 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 WalkerI think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.125
Havelock EllisThe 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 PinkerMany artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.125
Wallace StevensPoor, 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 KiplingBorrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.201
Alexander HamiltonThe 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 AureliusThe 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 AdamsAll 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
MichelangeloMy soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness. 202
Sitting BullThe earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love.202
Tennessee WilliamsThe violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.202
William WordsworthSuffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.202
Nikola TeslaThe 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 MertonBy 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 MontaigneLet us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.203
SophoclesNo speech can stain what is noble by nature.203
Francis BaconStudies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.204
Woody AllenAs 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
AristotleIf one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.205
Henry David ThoreauNature 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 SenecaA happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.205
Marcus AureliusObserve 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 DisneyYou can't just let nature run wild.206
Leonardo da VinciHuman 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 JamesThe 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 ColeridgeSwans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.207
George SantayanaTo be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.208
Lucius Annaeus SenecaFor greed all nature is too little.208
Marcus AureliusThat which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. 209
PlatoHe 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 BuffettEconomic 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 JohnsonHe 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 EinsteinJoy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. 210
C. S. LewisMiracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. 210
Bob DylanI 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 BlakeThe 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 AustenHuman 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 StevensonI 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
AristotleNature does nothing in vain. 211
Henry David ThoreauThe bluebird carries the sky on his back.211
Walt DisneyAll cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.211
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.211
Charles DickensTo 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 PoeIt is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.212
George W. BushNatural 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 VinciTo 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 XPower 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 HugoWhat would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.212
Thomas CarlyleThe old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.212
Henry David ThoreauNature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.213
Francis BaconNature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.213
Niccolo MachiavelliNature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.213
Zig ZiglarI 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 BurkeThere 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 SenecaAll art is but imitation of nature.214
Albert CamusRetaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.215
Thomas PaineBut such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.215
Anton ChekhovThe sea has neither meaning nor pity.215
Blaise PascalThe least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.216
Walt WhitmanA morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.216
Adlai E. StevensonNature is neutral.216
Albert EinsteinOur 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 SartreMan is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.217
C. S. LewisWhat 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 DickensSubdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.218
Albert SchweitzerMan has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.219
Marcus AureliusDeath, like birth, is a secret of Nature.220
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe earth laughs in flowers. 220
Henry Ward BeecherTo become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.220
Henry David ThoreauIf 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 TzuNature is not human hearted.223
Victor HugoDear 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 ButlerA hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.225
PlatoNo man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.226
Victor HugoNature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.226
Marcus Tullius CiceroTime destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.226
Francis BaconNature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.301
Lao TzuNature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. 302
Marcus AureliusWhatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.302
Winston ChurchillSolitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. 302
Woody AllenI am two with nature.302
Joseph ConradThis 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 AureliusLoss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. 303
William ShakespeareAnd 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 HillNature 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 MonroeSex is a part of nature. I go along with nature. 304
Blaise PascalNature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.305
Stephen HawkingThere are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.305
Benjamin DisraeliNature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.306
Jimmy CarterLike music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.309
PlatoAll 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 JeffersonThere is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.312
Joseph B. WirthlinGiant 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
AristotleAll men by nature desire knowledge.318
VoltaireWe are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.318
AristotleHence 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 TzuIt 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
VoltaireNature has always had more force than education.322
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWhat nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.322
AristotleFor 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 BonaparteIf I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. 325
Francis BaconThe subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.402
Victor HugoLove 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 TysonEven 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 WildeNo 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 EmersonThe smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.408
Ralph Waldo EmersonOnly 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 CiceroNature abhors annihilation.411
Abraham LincolnThe 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 LincolnIt 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 EmersonAdopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. 414
Alexander PopeHappy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.414
AristotleMan is by nature a political animal. 419
Mahatma GandhiWe 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 LincolnRepeal 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 BierceSpring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.423
Albert EinsteinOccurrences 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 ShakespeareNature hath framed strange fellows in her time.501
William ShakespeareFishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.512
Friedrich NietzscheOur 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 EmersonEverything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.521
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.524
Ralph Waldo EmersonNature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. 525
Albert EinsteinIt 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 GoetheNature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.607
Mahatma GandhiMan'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 EinsteinWe still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. 709
Mark TwainIn the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. 804
George Bernard ShawExcept 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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