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" It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own. "

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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" How inscrutable and incomprehensible are the hidden works of Nature! "

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

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" Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen. "

" The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours. "

William Wordsworth

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" Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes and docile creatures. There is no payoff to getting the warm fuzzies in the presence of rats, snakes, mosquitoes, cockroaches, herpes simplex and the rabies virus. "

" Things have a way of moving to the left, and then they move back to the right before somebody finds themselves in the center. That seems to be the nature of the creative world. It's not stagnant. I don't get upset about it. "

" I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. "

" We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne. "

" The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snowboarding, and I'm always around nature. I look at everything and think, 'Who couldn't believe there's a God? Is all this a mistake?' It just blows me away. "

" The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. "

" My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness. "

" If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. "

" Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her. "

" There is, in our nature, a disposition to indulgence, a secret desire to escape from labor, which, unless hourly combated, will overcome and destroy the best faculties of our minds and paralyze our most useful powers. "

" 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. "

" I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature. "

" 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. "

" Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms. "

" Human nature is not of itself vicious. "

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

" All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. "

" I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence. "

" I'm a nature bug. "

Donna Karan

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" Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. "

" For me, to find a place that doesn't have an organized tour going to it is becoming more and more difficult. A lot of times it involves danger of a political nature - places where the adventure-travel trips can't go because they can't get any liability insurance. "

Tim Cahill

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Place

" Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder. "

" These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms. "

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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Night

" Sweet April showers do spring May flowers. "