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Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

The earth has music for those who listen.

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.

The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man.

For greed all nature is too little.

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Self preservation is the first law of nature.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

If we kill off the wild then we are killing a part of our souls.

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity.

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

A good river is natures life work in song.

That which is not good for the been hive cannot be good for the bees.

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

Truth is by nature self evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

Nature, by its very nature, is very brutal and unequal. However, Man has somehow managed to transform the nature of its brutality and inequality.

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

Self defence is Nature's eldest law.

The sun will set without thy assistance.

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

Zoos are becoming facsimiles or perhaps caricatures of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Nothing that is natural is disgraceful.

Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

And then there are the times when the wolves are silent and the moon is howling.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

Sail! quoth the king; Hold! saith the wind.

Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well known air through innumerable variations.

The most general law in nature is equity the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

Handle a book as a bee does a flower extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

To insult someone we call him bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, human might be the greater insult.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

Nature is a labyrinth in which the very haste you move with will make you lose your way.

Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.

Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety nine out of a hundred picnics.

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

Although it's difficult, if not impossible, to put a dollar value on the numerous services nature provides, leaving them out of economic calculations means they are often ignored.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

Whether we and 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.

Nature conserves, prefers novelty.

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost the most legitimate passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.

Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things it almost becomes second nature to do so.

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

There are three things which make a nation great and prosperous a fertile soil, busy workshops, and easy conveyance for men and commodities.

All men by nature desire to know.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.

To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.

If 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.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

Up above, what wind walks! What lovely behavior of silk sack clouds has wilder, wilful, wavier, meal drift molded over and melted across skies!

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self conceit.

By competent evidence, is meant such as the nature of the thing to be proved requires; and by satisfactory evidence, is meant that amount of proof, which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind, beyond any reasonable doubt.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

I want to be freed neither from human beings, nor from myself, nor from nature; for all these appear to me the greatest of miracles.

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest She hears it breathing differently.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.

Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

Nature is regulating our climate for free. Mother Nature, she's been doing that for free, for a long, long time. Now do you really want to get in there and do geo engineering and all this kind of stuff?

Can we love what will swallow us when we are gone I do.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

He who keeps the hills, burns the wood; he who keeps the streams drinks the water.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Natures answer.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.

What is more gentle than a wind is summer?

The author describes how impressed she was with the detailed storyboards that outlined her movie not just sketches but real art. She then describes a Hawaiian sunset as God painting His storyboard on the sky.

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.

Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex felons cannot participate in the decision making process of this great Nation.

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head dress.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.

In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

Nature, to be controlled, must be obeyed.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

By nature I'm not a brooder.

You will manage to keep a woman in love with you only for as long as you can keep her in love with the person she becomes when she is with you.

Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

Now take all these qualities together order balance evolution and intelligence. What you have is a description of love. Its not the popular ideal it is the wizards love the force that upholds life and nurtures it.

I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.

Kids are truthful by nature.

Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theater of the tragedy of man.

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

Nature is neutral.

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

For the state by its nature claims sovereignty, the right to an unlimited development of power, determined only by self interest. It is by nature anarchistic.

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things books, pictures and the face of nature.

Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.

Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.

Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.

They got a manure machine in there Keller said. He went up to the barn and peeked through a hole between tow boards. On wheels. Its fun to ride sometimes when you dont care how you smell.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.

So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought he was trying to get out of treating me. But he was also responding to the chaotic nature of my life.

A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.

The idea that there is a trade off between growth and going green is pernicious and false. Experience demonstrates time and time again that greater wealth creation and a better quality of life for all go hand in hand.

...if you fall into a lions pit the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because its hungrybe assured zoo animals are amply fedor because its bloodthirsty but because youve invaded its territory.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.

The crickets sounded like maybe in the trees. They were pretty loud to be so unsure of themselves.

To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.

If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations.

I'm not a woman. I'm a force of nature.

Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.

I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

Nothing is so beautiful as spring when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.

I only care for the subjective life I am very German you see The woods interest me and the world does not.

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.

I am at two with nature.

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

... nothing in Nature is black or white few solutions are clean and clear rather reality and especially our models of it possess shades of gray throughout.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.

Man is by nature a political animal.

When mice run cats give chase.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

Swans sing before they die 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

We must imagine our lives well. We must engage our conscience. Conscience is the voice of God in the nature and heart of man.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

I've always wanted to fight for people who didn't have arms. I've always wanted to speak up for people who don't have a voice. I've always wanted to protect people who couldn't protect themselves. It's my nature. It's my instinct.

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.

To every Armageddonist every earth lover must keep saying with all the sincerity and affection we can muster May God make this world as beautiful to you as it has been to me.

It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

The wild places are where we began. When they end so do we.

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two thirds of a world made for man who has no gills.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.

Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience finds in nature the correspondence through which we may know our boundless selves.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

A tree that affords thee shade, do not order it to be cut down.

Nature goes on her way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

I have come to see the nonsense of trying to describe fine scenery.

Flower in the crannied wall,I pluck you out the crannies,I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,Little flower

Let Nature have her way; she understands her business better than we do.

If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

Although human subtlety makes a variety of inventions by different means to the same end, it 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.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

what it is...is a place where I can return to myself. Its enough of a scramble to get to...that the energy expended is significant and it translates into a change in my body chemistry and my psychological chemistry and my heart chemistry...

It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.

The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

The nature of the game is pain.

Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves hates and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it there is always that which you cant.

I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

In the range of inorganic nature. I doubt if any object can be found more perfectly beautiful than a fresh, deep snowdrift, seen under warm light.

Nothing is given to man on earth struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.

Autumn is the mellower season and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

You have to understand the nature of light.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva the iris from the bud the lawyer from the infant ...We are all shapeshifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun a caravan of selves.

The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep bite too hard.

My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.

I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

A flower is an educated weed.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

The nature of rumor is known to all.

One thing you cannot control is nature.

God, that all powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

There is lace in every living thing the bare branches of winter the patterns of clouds the surface of water as it ripples int he breeze.... Even a wild dogs matted fur shows a lacy pattern if you look at it closely enough.

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

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Human nature is what Heaven supplies.

Whatever is natural admits of variety.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

Your nature is the Buddha.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

The peasant is the only species of human being who doesnt like the country and never looks at it.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

When ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

The world is too must: with us; late and soon, getting and spending we lay waste our powers. Little we see in nature that is ours.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Nature reflects the moods of the wizard.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.

I keep drawing the trees the rocks the river Im still learning how to see them Im still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday Ill get it right.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

You look beautiful David

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

Well but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water.

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.

The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.

Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature.

I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.

Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

The world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

I wish to bean inspector of volcanoes.I want to study cloud formationsand memorize the windand learn by heart the habits ofthe ponderosa pine.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.

Nature surrounds us, from parks and backyards to streets and alleyways. Next time you go out for a walk, tread gently and remember that we are both inhabitants and stewards of nature in our neighbourhoods.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not improve.

Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking of a tightrope.

I am sure now that life is not what it is purported to be and that nature in the canny words of the Scotch theologue is not as natural as it looks.

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes. By the deep sea, and music in its roars; I love not man the less, but nature more.

There is no symbolism to these fish as Hemingway wrote. A cabezon is just a cabezon a garibaldi a garibaldi. But what wonderful stories they tell us about life in the ocean

You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.

I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have.

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Color is all. When color is right form is right. Color is everything color is vibration like music everything is vibration.

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

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

We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming.

I would say that the directors that I've liked the most are all curious in nature curious thinkers. They're all big questioners, I would say, first and foremost.

It is my nature to thin where others read.

The world is always in movement.

An old Apache storyteller reminds us:

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

Life has always poppies in her hands.

When you have poison oak you love nature a little less.

My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only his image.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature and another woman to help him forget them.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

I am two with nature.

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength.

I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence tragic in its fate and comic in its existence.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film making.

Nature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

All nature wears one universal grin.

I had an inheritance from my father It was the moon and the sun.And though I roam all over the world The spending of its never done.

There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

Ride the tributaries to reach the sea.

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.

If people think nature is their friend then they sure dont need an enemy.

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

The groves were God's first temples.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

A tree never feels how much fragrance it spreads. Its just its nature to be like that.

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.

Nature is Satans church.

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

We risk losing what nature is if we couch its value in human terms.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

Theres so much humanity in a love of trees so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature.

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.

Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos proportions or interiors or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize he had simply made a servant of Nature art can go no further.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

Visible objects therefore do not perish utterly since nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of anothers death.

But I'm a hot blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

I think having nature be a part of people's lives helps all of us see ourselves as part of something larger.

...dark furrow lines grid the snow punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins now the crows own the field...

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.

I should like the fields tinged with red the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing.

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.