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" It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. "

Frederick Douglass

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

" Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer. "

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" Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. "

" 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

" To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species. "

" Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. "

" 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. "

" An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings. "

" I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself. "

Edward Steichen

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

Albert Einstein

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

" Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff. "

" In a culture fueled by burnout, a culture that has run itself down, our national resilience becomes compromised. And when our collective immune system is weakened, we become more susceptible to viruses that are part of every culture because they're part of human nature - fear-mongering, scapegoating, conspiracy theories, and demagoguery. "

Arianna Huffington

" Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. "

Alexander Smith

" One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. "

" I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head. "

Devon Werkheiser

" A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. "

" 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. "

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" Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them. "

Frederick Douglass

" It's really important to have balance, spend some time in nature, go to a few parties, enjoy my friends and really chill out. "

" A dog is a vehicle, you know; a dog is a window to Mother Nature, and that's the closest species we have. "

" A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. "

C. Northcote Parkinson

" I am two with nature. "

" The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. "

Tennessee Williams

" Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one. "

Robert Baden-Powell

" 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. "

" Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. "

H. P. Lovecraft

" The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony. "

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

Antoine Lavoisier