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

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" Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. "

" It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona. "

Sonia Sotomayor

" I enjoy my John Deere tractor quite a lot. It's a tool that I must use to keep Mother Nature at bay. I have all kinds of things encroaching on my property. "

" What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars? "

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" That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit. "

" When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. "

James Whitcomb Riley

" Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull. "

" You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos. "

" How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. "

" If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment. "

" Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. "

Richard P. Feynman

" I'm a pessimist by nature, so it's always the worst things that come to mind first whenever you make a decision or have a decision to make. "

Domhnall Gleeson

" Nature governs man by no principle more fixed than that which leads him to pursue his interest. "

" If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently. "

" If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. "

" I have an interest in understanding evil. Who is the bad guy - the vampire who kills people and sucks their blood, or the survivalists who kill people to save their own lives? Is evil merely a creation of people? Or is there an evil nature? Or is it in the eye of the beholder? I really like these questions. "

" We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. "

William Hazlitt

" Human nature is not of itself vicious. "

" Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself. "

" A walk in nature is a perfect backdrop to combine exercise, prayer, and meditation while enhancing the benefit of these activities. "

" The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted. "

" If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. "

" All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. "

" We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology, their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life. "

" The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything. "

" With the coming of spring, I am calm again. "

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

" The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life. "

" The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. "