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" How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate. "

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" We now use the word 'nature' very much as our fathers used the word 'God.' "

" Making a film is like raising a child. You cannot raise a child to be liked by everyone. You raise a child to excel, and you teach the child to be true to his own nature. There will be people who'll dislike your child because he or she is who they are, and there will be people who'll love your child immensely for the very same reason. "

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" Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared. "

" There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another. "

" All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better. "

" Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the storms may be. "

Joseph B. Wirthlin

" As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them. "

" Be truthful, nature only sides with truth. "

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

" Nature is a petrified magic city. "

" A national park is not a playground. It's a sanctuary for nature and for humans who will accept nature on nature's own terms. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. "

" What's a butterfly garden without butterflies? "

" It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book. "

" My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness. "

" My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice. "

" Gray skies are just clouds passing over. "

" But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean. "

H. P. Lovecraft

" I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word 'natural' to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics. The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either. "

" Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life. "

" Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. "

" Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. "

" Nature is the fountain's head, the source from whence all originality must spring. "

" The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen. "

" One learns more from listening than speaking. And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls. "

" Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern life probably plays a significant role in the epidemic incidence of depression today. Many studies show that depressed patients who stick to a regimen of aerobic exercise improve as much as those treated with medication. "

" 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

" Get a composter and let nature breakdown your compostable trash and use the remains as mulch for your plants. "

Gretchen Bleiler