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" High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. "

" It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels. "

Philip Emeagwali

" There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature. "

" I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude. "

" Sweet April showers do spring May flowers. "

" There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature. "

" When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world. "

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

" There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners. "

" The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted. "

" A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine. "

" I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God. "

" 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

" Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. "

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

" Nature does nothing in vain. "

" It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. "

Frederick Douglass

" Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes and docile creatures. There is no payoff to getting the warm fuzzies in the presence of rats, snakes, mosquitoes, cockroaches, herpes simplex and the rabies virus. "

" One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" 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. "

" I suppose whenever you go through periods of transition, or in a way, it's a very definite closing of a certain chapter of your life - I suppose those times are always going to be both very upsetting and also very exciting by the very nature because things are changing and you don't know what's going to happen. "

Daniel Radcliffe

" I was a spooky kid; that was just my nature. "

Elizabeth Marvel

" The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life. "

" I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. "

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

William Shakespeare

" Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence. "

" 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

" Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws. "

Calvin Coolidge

" What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else. "

" Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. "

" We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us. "

" Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself. "

Robert Green Ingersoll