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" Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. "

Garrison Keillor

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" 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. "

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

" To copy Nature? A boy with a camera can do that. To get the spirit of Nature? A woodman or a shepherd can follow the trail of the whistling wind to hoarded sunshine in distant wolds. But to interpret Nature and inform it with a human personality that rises above it, invokes the divine in it, is the work of genius. "

" The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. "

Saint Teresa of Avila

" The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. "

Henry David Thoreau

" There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. "

Alexander Hamilton

" People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature. "

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

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" He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade. "

" The peacocking nature of baseball players and athletes in general - you're all kinda competing for who's got the most swagger. "

" I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there. "

" Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger. "

Edgar Rice Burroughs

" 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. "

" In a culture fueled by burnout, a culture that has run itself down, our national resilience becomes compromised. And when our collective immune system is weakened, we become more susceptible to viruses that are part of every culture because they're part of human nature - fear-mongering, scapegoating, conspiracy theories, and demagoguery. "

Arianna Huffington

" Envy is human nature. "

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" Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power. "

" But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean. "

H. P. Lovecraft

" The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love. "

" Nature was my kindergarten. "

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" Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers. "

" And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. "

William Shakespeare

" Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. "

Nathaniel Hawthorne

" You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor. "

Alexander the Great

" 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. "

" I have an interest in understanding evil. Who is the bad guy - the vampire who kills people and sucks their blood, or the survivalists who kill people to save their own lives? Is evil merely a creation of people? Or is there an evil nature? Or is it in the eye of the beholder? I really like these questions. "

" God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. "

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" A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. "

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

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