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" 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. "

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

William Wordsworth

" By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it. "

" 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

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" I was a spooky kid; that was just my nature. "

Elizabeth Marvel

" 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

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

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

Rabindranath Tagore

" Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial. "

" It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all. "

" I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them. "

Roger Tory Peterson

" It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. "

Edgar Allan Poe

" Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm. "

Emily Dickinson

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

Christina Aguilera

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

" Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes and docile creatures. There is no payoff to getting the warm fuzzies in the presence of rats, snakes, mosquitoes, cockroaches, herpes simplex and the rabies virus. "

" 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. "

" Nature's my muse and it's been my passion. "

" The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. "

" Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. "

" Forest restoration is a challenging and complex undertaking of raising young trees, transplanting them, and then cultivating them year in, year out in the face of harsh challenges of nature; it is a gigantic nature transformation project to turn all the mountains of the country into 'treasure mountains,' into 'gold mountains.' "

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

" 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. "

" I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. "

" If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans. "