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

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" For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day. "

" Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. "

William Shakespeare

" It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. "

" Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. "

" The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets. "

" Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world. "

" Gray skies are just clouds passing over. "

" I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence? "

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

" Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" When I grew up in the South, I was taught that segregation was the will of God, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that women were by nature in inferior to men, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that it was okay to hate other religions, and especially the Jews, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. "

John Shelby Spong

" The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man. "

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

" 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. "

" When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused of being a bit of a spitfire, so in that way, I absolutely live up to the stereotype. The red hair suits my personality. I was a terrible blonde! "

" And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow. "

" Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy. "

Roger Tory Peterson

" I am two with nature. "

" I love not man the less, but Nature more. "

" You can't just let nature run wild. "

" In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. "

Nathaniel Hawthorne

" Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight. "

" 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! "

" An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings. "

" I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something. "

" Get a composter and let nature breakdown your compostable trash and use the remains as mulch for your plants. "

Gretchen Bleiler

" A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. "

C. Northcote Parkinson

" Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. "

Winston Churchill

" I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon. "

" Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be. "

Sharon Salzberg

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