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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 HovhanessNature engenders the science of painting.
Robert DelaunayMan 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 HawthorneThe 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 CiceroTo the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
Auguste RodinNature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.
Emily Dickinsonif you truly love nature you will find beauty everywhere
Vincent Van GoghNature surpasses nurture.
ProverbsA lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.
Michael PollanDays decrease And autumn grows autumn in everything.
Robert BrowningNature does nothing in vain.
AristotleIt is loves nature to be expressed.
Steve MaraboliMoonlight is sculpture.
Nathaniel HawthorneThere is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
Henry David ThoreauWinter is nature's way of saying, Up yours.
Robert ByrneThe method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
Ralph Waldo EmersonDestruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
Marquis de SadeWe are immensed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.
Ralph Waldo EmersonDrive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window
Fyodor DostoevskyEverything in excess Is opposed by nature.
HippocratesYou can't just let nature run wild.
Walt DisneyNature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
Francis BaconAbstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
Josef AlbersNature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.
Archibald AlexanderWhere is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Henry Ward BeecherShe seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.
William WordsworthNature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
William ShakespeareThe plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
Guillaume ApollinaireThe landscape belongs to the person who looks at it... Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
Charles de SecondatDont you remember that love like medicine is only the art of encouraging nature
Pierre Choderlos de LaclosSome people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
Roger MillerIt is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me I see Him all around me.
Jean Jacques RousseauWild roses are fairest and nature a better gardener than art.
Louisa May AlcottHope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
Robert Green IngersollLeopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.
Roberto CavalliThe nature of things is I admit a sturdy adversary.
Edmund BurkeMany eyes go through the meadow but few see the flowers in it
Ralph Waldo EmersonDisease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Hosea BallouThe good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNature never breaks her own laws.
Leonardo da VinciGoing to the woods is going home.
John MuirThe bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David ThoreauThere were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.
Charles EastmanA hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel ButlerTo eat steak rare… represents both a nature and a morality.
Roland BarthesNature is not human hearted.
Lao TzuHe who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelIm sure I shall always feel like a child in the wood.
L.M. MontgomeryAs in everything nature is the best instructor.
Adolf HitlerTo forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
Mohandas Karamchand GandhiNature is usually wrong.
James McNeill WhistlerNature is commanded by obeying her.
Francis BaconNothing is invented for its written in nature first.
Antoni GaudiMan is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelNature abhors annihilation.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
Paul CezanneBy nature I am not tough, believe it or not.
Jennifer LopezConservation is not a desperate defensive effort. It is instead joyous and lifeaffirming. from Zen Birding
Susan Guyette and David WhiteNature was my kindergarten.
William Christopher HandyNature is the art of God.
Dante AlighieriPoor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
Wallace StevensA mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
Sir Joshua ReynoldsI study nature so as not to do foolish things.
Mary RuefleIm proud to be a freak of nature.
Robin BrandeAnd out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
Alfred Lord TennysonIn nature there are few sharp lines.
A. R. AmmonsLandscapes we must owe something to the eye of the beholder.
Mary LascellesI dont get it. Its a bunch of trees with leaves.
Cindy WoodsmallLet us give Nature a chance she knows her business better than we do.
Michel de MontaigneRain is Natures way of telling us to go slowly because the roads will soon be wet.
Hermester BarringtonGreen is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
Pedro Calderon de la BarcaThe more I work with Nature and totemism the more church is everywhere.
S. Kelley HarrellDeep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
Theodore Roethke