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" It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. "

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" I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily. "

" When a dragonfly flutters by, you may not realize, but it's the greatest flier in nature. It can hover, fly backwards, even upside down. "

Louie Schwartzberg

" My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature. "

" Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power. "

" Young boys must be taught to play football without leading with or lowering their heads. Young players must be drilled over and over and over with Heads Up Football skills until that skill set becomes muscle memory and second nature. "

" Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. "

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

" 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' "

" What's a butterfly garden without butterflies? "

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

Vladimir Nabokov

" And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow. "

" In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. "

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

" I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us. "

" By nature, I'm very care-taking. There's something really beautiful about cooking for someone and feeding them. "

" Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. "

Arthur C. Clarke

" If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. "

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

" As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight. "

Jordan Peterson

" If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible. "

" Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out. "

Steven Weinberg

" Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art. "

" Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? "

Henry David Thoreau

" Nature is the purest thing we can touch and observe. It can be the most beautiful and also the most devastating. "

" Sunlight is painting. "

Nathaniel Hawthorne

" 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

" If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked. "

" First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. "

" I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have. "

" Nature was my kindergarten. "

William Christopher Handy