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" Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art. "

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" 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. "

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" I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad. "

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" All nature wears one universal grin. "

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" Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer. "

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" The poetry of the earth is never dead. "

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" Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world. "

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" The bluebird carries the sky on his back. "

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" The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea. "

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" How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. "

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" Nature provides exceptions to every rule. "

Margaret Fuller

" Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances. "

Charles Baudelaire

" We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology, their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life. "

" All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things. "

" The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased. "

Alexander Hamilton

" Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth. "

" A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. "

" There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. "

" I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature. "

" Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else. "

" None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath. "

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" Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. "

Arthur Schopenhauer