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" Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives. "

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" People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely. "

Henry Cantwell Wallace

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" Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control. "

" Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. "

" Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. "

" I'm a pessimist by nature, so it's always the worst things that come to mind first whenever you make a decision or have a decision to make. "

" I will talk about two sets of things. One is how productivity and collaboration are reinventing the nature of work, and how this will be very important for the global economy. And two, data. In other words, the profound impact of digital technology that stems from data and the data feedback loop. "

" I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows. "

Jilly Cooper

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" 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? "

" Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn. "

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

" But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers? "

" The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it. "

" As the twig is bent the tree inclines. "

" Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant. "

" If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. "

" The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. "

" Things have a way of moving to the left, and then they move back to the right before somebody finds themselves in the center. That seems to be the nature of the creative world. It's not stagnant. I don't get upset about it. "

" To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. "

" Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. "

" Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development. "

" All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. "

" 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. "

Bernard de Mandeville

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" Nature is the purest thing we can touch and observe. It can be the most beautiful and also the most devastating. "

" All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. "

" Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. "

" 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. "

" We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature. "

" That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in. "

" Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. "

" To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature. "