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The earth has music for those who listen.
William ShakespeareEvery flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
Gerard De NervalLaw is born from despair of human nature.
Jose Ortega y GassetNature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
Antoinette Brown BlackwellSolitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Winston ChurchillFor greed all nature is too little.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaSelf preservation is the first law of nature.
Samuel ButlerI like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
William ShakespeareBe truthful, nature only sides with truth.
Adolf LoosA good river is natures life work in song.
Mark HelprinIf journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
Julian AssangeThe butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath TagoreSelf defence is Nature's eldest law.
John DrydenThe sun will set without thy assistance.
The TalmudCome forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
William WordsworthNature provides exceptions to every rule.
Margaret FullerNothing that is natural is disgraceful.
Latin ProverbNature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNo sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.
Llewelyn PowysThe good man is the friend of all living things.
Mahatma GandhiSail! quoth the king; Hold! saith the wind.
English ProverbInto each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowSpeech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
Alfred North WhiteheadNature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Francis BaconOnly nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyNature uses as little as possible of anything.
Johannes KeplerThe poetry of the earth is never dead.
John KeatsA happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaNature conserves, prefers novelty.
Terence McKennaLove thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
Edward G. Bulwer LyttonAll men by nature desire to know.
AristotleThe mountains are calling and I must go.
John MuirIn nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
Robert G. IngersollNature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
William RuckelshausSuffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
William WordsworthIf you live according to the dictates of nature, you will never be poor; if according to the notions of man, you will never be rich.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Elder)I want death to find me planting my cabbages.
Michel de MontaigneIt is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
Deepak ChopraLike water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
Cyril ConnollyI have a bit of a rebellious nature.
John CusackNature is not a place to visit. It is home.
Gary SnyderWe trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
Christian Nestell BoveeRead nature; nature is a friend to truth.
Edward YoungI'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.
Christina AguileraFishes live in the sea, as men do a land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
William ShakespeareWhat is more gentle than a wind is summer?
John KeatsIn nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNature, to be controlled, must be obeyed.
Francis BaconThere are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Marcus Tullius CiceroBy nature I'm not a brooder.
Hugh JackmanKids are truthful by nature.
Anna ChlumskyNature is neutral.
Adlai E. StevensonShuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
Arthur EddingtonWords, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Alfred Lord TennysonFishes live in the sea, as men do a land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
William ShakespeareTo cultivate a garden is to walk with God.
Christian BovéeTime obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI'm not a woman. I'm a force of nature.
Courtney LoveI like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.
Garry ShandlingIt is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Edmund BurkeI am at two with nature.
Woody AllenI've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
Alan HovhanessMan is by nature a political animal.
AristotleWhen mice run cats give chase.
Rachel VincentThe butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath TagoreSwans sing before they die 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeNature does nothing uselessly.
AristotleA human being is a part of the whole, called by us
Albert EinsteinI love not man the less, but Nature more.
Lord ByronNature never did betray the heart that loved her.
William WordsworthNature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
Benjamin DisraeliOne must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMan is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
Jean Paul SartreA tree that affords thee shade, do not order it to be cut down.
Arabian ProverbNature goes on her way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheI have come to see the nonsense of trying to describe fine scenery.
Nathaniel HawthorneLet Nature have her way; she understands her business better than we do.
Michel de MontaigneThe bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.
Edward DahlbergThe Amen of nature is always a flower.
Oliver Wendell HolmesWhen nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Frank Lloyd WrightThe nature of the game is pain.
LL Cool JTruth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
Edward G. Bulwer LyttonNature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
William CowperThe fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
David Herbert LawrenceExternal nature is only internal nature writ large.
Swami VivekanandaYou have to understand the nature of light.
Conrad HallThere is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster FullerNature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
Jean Jacques RousseauA flower is an educated weed.
Luther BurbankCall it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThere are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
Marshall McLuhanThe nature of rumor is known to all.
TertullianOne thing you cannot control is nature.
Diana RossNature... is nothing but the inner voice of self interest.
Charles BaudelaireWhatever is natural admits of variety.
Madame de StaelOne touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William ShakespeareYour nature is the Buddha.
BodhidharmaThe unnatural, that too is natural.
Johann von GoetheThe sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOf all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
Marcus Tullius CiceroI perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Claude MonetNature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
Gertrude SteinNature reflects the moods of the wizard.
Deepak ChopraYou look beautiful David
Scott WesterfeldWe cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Francis BaconThe best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful.
E. e. cummingsTrees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath TagoreNature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.
Bhumibol AdulyadejNature is wont to hide herself.
HeraclitusNature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheWe see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not improve.
Oliver Wendell HolmesThe man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
Zora Neale HurstonYou can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.
Edwin Louis ColeFor neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
Patricia HighsmithWater is the driving force of all nature.
Leonardo da VinciIt is my nature to thin where others read.
Thomas SydenhamThe world is always in movement.
V. S. NaipaulAn old Apache storyteller reminds us:
Joseph CampbellLife has always poppies in her hands.
Oscar WildeWhen you have poison oak you love nature a little less.
Michael LipseyNature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
George Washington CarverFlowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward BeecherI am two with nature.
Woody AllenMere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelNature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art.
Baltasar GracianPerhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
Wallace StevensAll nature wears one universal grin.
Henry FieldingRide the tributaries to reach the sea.
Arabian ProverbI admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.
Sidney SheldonNature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe groves were God's first temples.
William C. BryantHuman nature is not of itself vicious.
Thomas PaineNature is Satans church.
Lars Von TrierNature is to zoos as God is to churches.
Margaret AtwoodPoliteness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Arthur SchopenhauerNature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe river was so blue it seemed to be breathing.
Brian MortonVirtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Marcus Tullius Cicero