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" I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. "

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Franz Grillparzer

" Nature is wont to hide herself. "

" Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself. "

Annie Leibovitz

" The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it. "

" Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature. "

" 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

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

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

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

" Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. "

" What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

" We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Water is the driving force of all nature. "

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Arthur C. Clarke

" Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. "

Albert Einstein

" Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man. "

" Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. "

" The ocean is a mighty harmonist. "

William Wordsworth

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

" Although it is true that by fate all things are forced and linked by a necessary and dominant reason, nevertheless the character of our minds is subject to fate in a manner corresponding to their nature and quality. "

" Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us. "

Bhumibol Adulyadej

" The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea. "

Vladimir Nabokov

" The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. "

Cyrano de Bergerac

" What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. "

" Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion. "

Antoine Lavoisier

" Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together. "

" In terms of immigration, we're seeing a lot of Democrats and Republicans use the really elastic term, 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform,' and they don't totally understand what that means. For us in El Paso, it's part of a larger discussion about the nature of the border. "

" I love not man the less, but Nature more. "

" I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch. "