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" A tree is an incomprehensible mystery. "

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" Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God. "

" Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song, which had lost its way and come on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel's nature into us. "

Frederick William Faber

" Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton. "

" 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

" Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere. "

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

" The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution. "

" Religion is among the most beautiful and most natural of all things - that religion which 'sees God in clouds and hears Him in the wind,' which endows every object of sense with a living soul, which finds in the system of nature whatever is holy, mysterious and venerable, and inspires the bosom with sentiments of awe and veneration. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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 poetry of the earth is never dead. "

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

" Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. "

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

" Little white lies are part of everyday life. If you're in court being charged with a felony, you're probably going to be tempted to lie. Or if your girlfriend asks you if the sweater she is wearing makes her look fat; you're going to lie because you love that person. There are different reasons and justifications to lie; it's human nature. "

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

" To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. "

" Earth is a flower and it's pollinating. "

" Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring? "

William C. Bryant

" Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves. "

Werner Heisenberg

" Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. "

" The sea has neither meaning nor pity. "

" Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature. "

" The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. "

Cyrano de Bergerac

" Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises. "

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

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

" The ocean is a mighty harmonist. "

William Wordsworth

" What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars? "

Pliny the Elder