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" Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground. "

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" I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. "

John D. Rockefeller

" The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony. "

" Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest. "

" I am fascinated by people's flaws and delusions: all the messy bits of human nature we all try to pretend we don't have. "

" The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. "

" There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. "

R. Buckminster Fuller

" Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. "

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

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

" There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. "

Robert Wilson Lynd

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

" Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise. "

" The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. "

Reinhold Niebuhr

" Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light! "

" There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes. "

Marguerite Moreau

" My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. "

" The most positive men are the most credulous. "

" Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise. "

" 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

" Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul. "

" To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake. "

" It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature. "

" Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. "

" 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. "

" Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive. "

Bernard de Mandeville

" Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second. "

Mattie Stepanek

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

" Nature is not human hearted. "

" The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that of all corporeality along with it, including the actuality of my body, the body of the cognizing subject. "

" I had a mild case of polio - not enough to put me in an iron lung, but enough to keep me bedridden for weeks. As I came out of it, my mom wanted to do something for me. She realized that, growing up in the city, I'd missed out on a lot of nature. "

" Human nature is not black and white but black and grey. "

Black And White