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

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" Seems you can't outsmart Mother Nature. "

" I'm a boss by nature. I'm bossy. I'm not imperious, but I don't really want people to curtsy low before me and back out of rooms, but I do like to run things. "

" Everything in excess is opposed to nature. "

" Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring? "

William C. Bryant

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

" The body is both a temple and a perfect machine. Our bodies have within them a healing potential, and we nourish this potential with the pure and simple foods found in nature. "

Angela Lindvall

" 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. "

" Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses. "

" I can't go against my nature because I am what I am. I don't try to be anyone different to who I am. "

Brian McDermott

" Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn. "

" The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love. "

" The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. "

" The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle. "

Leonardo da Vinci

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

" Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid. "

" I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. "

" Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature. "

" In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. "

" If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now 'grieving' for 'Calvin and Hobbes' would be wishing me dead. "

" Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. "

" The soul is one in its nature, but its entities are many. "

Dayananda Saraswati

" To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. "

" Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development. "

Robert Smithson

" By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop. "

" Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. "

" Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises. "

" Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature. "

" The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer. "

" Clever of me to become a critic. We critics scrutinize and show off to a higher end. For a greater good. Our manners, our tastes, our declarations are welcomed. Superior for life. Except when we're not. Except when we're dismissed or denounced as envious or petty, as derivatives and dependents by nature. Second class for life. "

Margo Jefferson