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" Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive. "

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" It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. "

Virginia Woolf

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" 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

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" Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil. "

" 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. "

" Light in Nature creates the movement of colors. "

" As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power. "

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

" 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? "

" Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star. "

" By nature, I'm an awkward person; I'm a gangly introvert. "

" Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star. "

" With the coming of spring, I am calm again. "

" I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us. "

" Gray skies are just clouds passing over. "

" Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul. "

" 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

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" Nature governs man by no principle more fixed than that which leads him to pursue his interest. "

" President George W. Bush's aggressive war on Islamic terrorism produced a 100 percent perfect track record of keeping the United States safe from another attack. The result has been increased security for the American people, who, in turn, have become complacent about the true nature of the threat. "

" Nature provides exceptions to every rule. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" All the universe is full of the lives of perfect creatures. "

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

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" The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. "

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

" 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.' "

" I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic - I use this metaphor a lot but I'll use it again - it's like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries - it's just what happens with this being, now. "

" There's no night without stars. "