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" 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! "
Edward Abbey
Nature
Black
Flowers
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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? "
Pliny the Elder
Sails
Her
Man
" All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. "
Walt Disney
Nature
Exaggeration
Fantasy
" 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. "
Queen Rania of Jordan
Start
Nature
You
" There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners. "
Antoni Gaudi
Sharp
Nature
Must
" 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
Life
Trees
Good
" 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. "
Alice Walker
World
Self
Nature
" The nature of Homeland Security is that no news is good news. And no news sometimes means somebody got interdicted at the border, somebody got interdicted before they could get on an airplane, somebody was arrested providing material support to terrorism. Homeland Security means very often something you never hear about. "
Jeh Johnson
Support
You
Good
" The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer. "
Muhammad Iqbal
Nature
Mystic
Kind
" Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. "
Marcus Aurelius
Happens
Bear
He
" Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. "
Francis Bacon
Obeyed
Nature
Must
" 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. "
Billy Corgan
Nature
Spiritual
Journey
" Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her. "
Mahatma Gandhi
Woman
Service
Selfless
" It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave. "
Sallust
Reputation
Victory
Nature
" Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. "
Russell Baker
You
Suffer
Summer
" Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms. "
Milton Avery
Mountains
Nature
Colors
" Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out. "
Steven Weinberg
Like
Nature
Ugly
" Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing. "
Edward Abbey
Cares
Nothing
Anger
" The mountains are calling and I must go. "
John Muir
Nature
Go
Mountains
" I'm a boss by nature. I'm bossy. I'm not imperious, but I don't really want people to curtsy low before me and back out of rooms, but I do like to run things. "
Helen Hayes
Nature
Boss
Me
" Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. "
Edward Abbey
Luxury
Nature
Spirit
" The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution. "
Steven Pinker
Political
Nature
Book
" My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. "
Hamlin Garland
Thinking
Nature
Day
" The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. "
Havelock Ellis
Stars
Hands
Long
" We need no fanciful teaching regarding the personality of God. What God desires us to know of Him is revealed in His word and His works. The beautiful things of nature reveal His character and His power as Creator. "
Ellen G. White
God
Character
Nature
" Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise. "
Victor Hugo
Love
Soul
Love Is
" When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius
Done
Work
" You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. "
Edward Abbey
Flooding
Light
Darkness
" We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets. "
David Suzuki
Time
Learn
Nature
" In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
See
Never
Nature
" Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second. "
Edward Abbey
Culture
First
Second