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" Human nature is not of itself vicious. "

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

" I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. "

" Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, 'convulsions of nature,' etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God's love. "

" Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another. "

" He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade. "

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

" Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be. "

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

" I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have. "

" To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked. "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

" There are always flowers for those who want to see them. "

" Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind. "

" The skull is nature's sculpture. "

" We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature. "

" Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" One can ascend to a higher development only by bringing rhythm and repetition into one's life. Rhythm holds sway in all nature. "

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

William Shakespeare

" Behind every cloud is another cloud. "

" If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. "

" In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. "

George Bernard Shaw

" We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. "

Albert Einstein

" 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. "

" 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

" As the twig is bent the tree inclines. "

" The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected. "

Henry David Thoreau

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

Rabindranath Tagore

" I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something. "