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

Arthur C. Clarke

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" Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer. "

" If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living. "

" Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see. "

" 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. "

" Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature. "

" It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. "

" 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

" 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 very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more. "

" We must use the wrath of nature as our teacher. "

Bhumibol Adulyadej

" By 'justice', I understand nothing more than that bond which is necessary to keep the interest of individuals united, without which men would return to their original state of barbarity. All punishments which exceed the necessity of preserving this bond are, in their nature, unjust. "

Cesare Beccaria

" You can't just let nature run wild. "

" Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature. "

" The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings. "

" The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. "

" Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. That's it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can. "

" We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds. "

" 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. "

" For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity. "

Christopher Dawson

" Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne. "

" Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. "

" When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic. "

" Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. "

" Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. "

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

" To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. "

" To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. "

" Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone. "

Rutherford B. Hayes

" The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money. "