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I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.
— Ann Voskamp
A forest bird never wants a cage.
— Henrik Ibsen
The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.
— Nikola Tesla
All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from.
— Marilyn Manson
As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on the farm, the fields and forests were places of adventure and self-discovery. Animals were companions and friends, and the world moved at a slower, more rational pace than the bustling cities where I'd resided my adult life.
— David Mixner
Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.
— Steven Pinker
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.
— Denis Diderot
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
— Xun Kuang
Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.
— Radhanath Swami
Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
— Henri Rousseau
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
— Aesop
Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers.
— Gretchen Rubin
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
— Marcus Aurelius
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.
— Marcus Garvey
The rainbow is a part of nature, and you have to be in the right place to see it. It's beautiful, all of the colors, even the colors you can't see. That really fit us as a people because we are all of the colors. Our sexuality is all of the colors. We are all the genders, races, and ages.
— Gilbert Baker
Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.
— Larry Wilcox
Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
— John Keats
For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.
— Edwin Way Teale
There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.
— Claude Debussy
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.
— Samuel Adams
It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
— Abraham Lincoln
Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. That's it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can.
— Joanna Lumley
Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
— John Donne
Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born smarter than the rest of us. Whether we like it or not, Mother Nature does not dole these characteristics out evenly.
— Simon Sinek
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
— Graham Greene
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
— John D. Rockefeller
Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
— Langston Hughes
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.
— Diane Ackerman
The Amen of nature is always a flower.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.
— Liu Xiaobo
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.
— Martin Luther
My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.
— Claude Monet
Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in nature.
— Dave Davies
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
— Lao Tzu
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
— William Wordsworth
One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others' weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all - to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high.
— Ezra Taft Benson
The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.
— Helen Garner
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
— Joseph Joubert
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
— Jane Austen
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
— John Burroughs
If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are calm and confident, it will come forward. For those who are often flattered or feared, the horse can be a welcome mirror of the best in human nature.
— Clare Balding
It's really important to have balance, spend some time in nature, go to a few parties, enjoy my friends and really chill out.
— Joakim Noah
If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not.
— Henry W. Kendall
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.
— Phillips Brooks
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
— Marquis de Sade
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
— Saint Teresa of Avila
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.
— Orison Swett Marden
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
— Elizabeth I
And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.
— Roy Bean
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
— Benjamin Franklin
Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.
— Che Guevara
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. 
— Voltaire
All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed - the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them, making them what they are. Things take time, you know?
— Diane Lane
Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
— Leonardo da Vinci
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
— Philip Sidney
You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.
— Alexander the Great
It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.
— Gerard Way
We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilisation, we must deal scientifically with the brute element, using only genuine biological principles.
— H. P. Lovecraft
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
— H. G. Wells
Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? 
— Rose Kennedy
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
— Alexander Hamilton
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
— Michelangelo
To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.
— Leonardo da Vinci
Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack. Yet both have been hounded, harassed and falsely imputed to be devouring and devious, overly aggressive, of less value than those who are their detractors.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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.
— John Adams
Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
— Mason Cooley
Behind every cloud is another cloud.
— Judy Garland
The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.
— Plautus
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
— Richard P. Feynman
When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
— E. O. Wilson
There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.
— Wayne Dyer
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.
— Hal Borland
Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.
— Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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.
— Johannes Kepler
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
— Moliere
The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
— Wallace Stevens
Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.
— Diane Ackerman
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
— Emily Dickinson
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
— John Burroughs
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't just let nature run wild.
— Walt Disney
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
— John Paul Jones
Migration is as natural as breathing, as eating, as sleeping. It is part of life, part of nature. So we have to find a way of establishing a proper kind of scenario for modern migration to exist. And when I say 'we,' I mean the world. We need to find ways of making that migration not forced.
— Gael Garcia Bernal
Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.
— Gary Speed
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.
— John Muir
And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun.
— Roy Bean
The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream.
— Steven Pinker
O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.
— Ai Weiwei
Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.
— Claude Monet
Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?
— James Montgomery
If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.
— Bill Watterson
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences. 
— Robert Green Ingersoll
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
— E. M. Forster
Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.
— Bjork
There are women to whom nature has granted the gift of silent emotion. They have mobile faces, changeful eyes, soft lips, which express joy or desolation naturally, and with the charm of perfect simplicity and truth.
— Sarah Doudney
We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
I'm a real nature lover, so whenever possible, I like to get to the beach or get to a forest or get somewhere there's fresh air. Apart from that, I'm a film addict and a DVD freak.
— Murray Bartlett
The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.
— Nikola Tesla
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
— Octavio Paz
It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.
— Mercy Otis Warren
The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
— William Wordsworth
I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.
— Georg Trakl
Mother Nature is the great equalizer. You can't get away from it.
— Christopher Heyerdahl
Japan, not only a mega-busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must travel outside of Tokyo to truly experience the 'old Japan' and more importantly feel these aspects of Japanese culture.
— Apolo Ohno
People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.
— Russel Honore
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
— Salvador Dali
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition.
— Bruce Lipton
I hold grudges, but I can't hate nobody; that's not my nature.
— The Notorious B.I.G.
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases.
— Edward Jenner
It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
— Mao Zedong
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
— D. H. Lawrence
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves. 
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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.
— George Washington Carver
What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?
— Roy Rogers
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
— Henry David Thoreau
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc.
— Friedrich Engels
Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
— John Muir
We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.
— Sue Grafton
Communism is in conflict with human nature.
— Ernest Renan
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
— William Shakespeare
Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.
— Warren Buffett
The moon looks upon many night flowers the night flowers see but one moon. 
— Jean Ingelow
Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this.
— Richard P. Feynman
Agriculture changes the landscape more than anything else we do. It alters the composition of species. We don't realize it when we sit down to eat, but that is our most profound engagement with the rest of nature.
— Michael Pollan
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
— John Lubbock
I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.
— Antoine Lavoisier
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
— Swami Vivekananda
As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway.
— Nikola Tesla
Painting is by nature a luminous language.
— Robert Delaunay
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
— Edgar Allan Poe
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
— Samuel Johnson
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.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment.
— Lucy Larcom
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
— Auguste Rodin
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
— Leo Buscaglia
Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement is nature.
— Henry Moore
Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.
— Ted Williams
A bee is never as busy as it seems it's just that it can't buzz any slower. 
— Kin Hubbard
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
— John Muir
There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
— Thomas Jefferson
I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.
— Billy Corgan
The skull is nature's sculpture.
— David Bailey
For greed all nature is too little.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Sunlight is painting.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
— Walt Disney
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
— Paracelsus
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.
— Edward Steichen
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
— George Santayana
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
— Jean Giraudoux
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.
— Jules Verne
The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.
— Ramana Maharshi
The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
— Euclid
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
— Dennis Prager
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.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Sailing is the closest I can get to nature - it's adrenaline, fear, a constant challenge and learning experience, an adventure into the unknown. And of course there is nothing better than wearing the same T-shirt for days and not brushing my hair for weeks.
— Daria Werbowy
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
— Winston Churchill
Nature does nothing in vain.
— Aristotle
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
— Hippocrates
I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
— Pablo Neruda
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
— Woody Allen
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.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
— Henry David Thoreau
Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.
— Harrison Ford
I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.
— Miriam Makeba
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
— Honore de Balzac
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
— Thomas Hobbes
Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.
— Antoni Gaudi
This is a day of little faith - of few convictions - a day when men seem to have no great causes and no great passions. So in frustration, in disappointment, they are inclined to say, 'You can't change human nature.' It is true that we cannot change human nature. But God can.
— Peter Marshall
When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
— Barack Obama
Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.
— Andrea Arnold
Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it. That's human nature to believe that beauty is everything.
— Marina and the Diamonds
The most important thing is the indigenous people are not vindictive by nature. We are not here to oppress anybody - but to join together and build Bolivia, with justice and equality.
— Evo Morales
Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
— Michael Faraday
Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.
— Thomas Kincade
Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
— Jeremy Bentham
Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man. 
— Henry Adams
Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
— Johannes Kepler
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
— Plato
I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.
— Alice Walker
See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
— Richard P. Feynman
Knowledge doesn't really form part of human nature. Conflict, combat, the outcome of the combat, and, consequently, risk and chance are what gives rise to knowledge. Knowledge is not instinctive; it is counter instinctive, just as it is not natural but counter natural.
— Michel Foucault
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
— Marie Curie
Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature.
— Hjalmar Branting
I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
— Joan Jett
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love.
— Sitting Bull
Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time.
— Debbie Ford
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
— Jean Giraudoux
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.
— Anton Chekhov
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
— Blaise Pascal
Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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.
— Sara Teasdale
The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight.
— William C. Bryant
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
— William Shakespeare
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
— Thomas Moore
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.
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
— Andy Goldsworthy
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
— Friedrich Schiller
Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.
— Bob Marley
By 'justice', I understand nothing more than that bond which is necessary to keep the interest of individuals united, without which men would return to their original state of barbarity. All punishments which exceed the necessity of preserving this bond are, in their nature, unjust.
— Cesare Beccaria
We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
— Patrick Henry
The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.
— Rudolf Steiner
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
— Carl von Clausewitz
We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.
— Adam Hamilton
Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
— Samuel Adams
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
— John Muir
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
— Benjamin Franklin
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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.
— Geraldo Rivera
Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments.
— Yayoi Kusama
All men are by nature born equally free and independent.
— George Mason
If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story?
— Evangeline Lilly
What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.
— C. S. Lewis
There is no doubt that breath control is the means for mind control because the mind, like breath, is a part of air; because the nature of mobility is common to both; because the place of origin is the same for both; and because when one of them is controlled, the other gets controlled.
— Ramana Maharshi
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
— Leo Tolstoy
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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.
— Marquis de Sade
Trees love to toss and sway they make such happy noises. 
— Emily Carr
I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.
— Martha Graham
It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
— Deepak Chopra
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies. 
— Arthur Schopenhauer
With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.
— Sylvia Earle
Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.
— Thomas Campbell
We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.
— Antoine Lavoisier
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
— Matsuo Basho
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
— May Sarton
Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power.
— Orison Swett Marden
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
— Salman Rushdie
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
— Thomas Hobbes
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
— Henry David Thoreau
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
— Auguste Rodin
We still carry this old caveman-imprint idea that we're small, nature's big, and it's everything we can manage to hang on and survive. When big geophysical events happen - a huge earthquake, tsunami, or volcanic eruption - we're reminded of that.
— James Balog
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
— Aleister Crowley
All art is but imitation of nature.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.
— Marlo Thomas
I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
— Harmon Killebrew
Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
— Sai Baba
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
— James Madison
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.
— Carl Sandburg
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
— Edward Abbey
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
— Emily Dickinson
Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.
— Hamlin Garland
My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
— Hamlin Garland
When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
— James Whitcomb Riley
Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
— Marcus Aurelius
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
— Russell Baker
Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.
— Thomas Tusser
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.
— Wendell Berry
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
— William Hazlitt
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
— William Shakespeare
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
— H. P. Lovecraft
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.
— Annie Leibovitz
Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.
— John Webster
The stars that have most glory have no rest.
— Samuel Daniel
Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way.
— Matthew Green
How inscrutable and incomprehensible are the hidden works of Nature!
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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.
— Sai Baba
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
— William Wordsworth
A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.
— Walter Kirn
Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty, and we dream of finding new secrets of nature as important and as exciting as those uncovered by our scientific heroes.
— Luis Walter Alvarez
Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.
— Noam Chomsky
Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone.
— Donella Meadows
Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.
— Robert Baden-Powell
In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert.
— I. M. Pei
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
— Al Gore
In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.
— J. Paul Getty
A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music - these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave it is not in his nature. 
— Laurence Sterne
Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation.
— P. T. Barnum
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.
— Isaac Newton
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
— Samuel Butler
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
— Plato
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
— Ansel Adams
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
— Marcus Aurelius
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
— Nicolas Chamfort
A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.
— Michael Pollan
Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
— Thomas Aquinas
Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.
— Robert Bork
Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art.
— Max Bill
Mother Nature is not sweet.
— John Shelby Spong
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
— Claude Monet
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
— e. e. cummings
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
— Aldous Huxley
The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.
— Kevin Kelly