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" Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger. "

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Leonardo da Vinci

" Everything in excess is opposed to nature. "

" For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all. "

" We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilisation, we must deal scientifically with the brute element, using only genuine biological principles. "

H. P. Lovecraft

" If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story? "

Evangeline Lilly

" Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul. "

" How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. "

Arthur C. Clarke

" The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall. "

" There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. "

Thomas Jefferson

" All men are by nature born equally free and independent. "

" Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality. "

Andy Goldsworthy

" When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees. "

" Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us. "

Bhumibol Adulyadej

" In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. "

" Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable. "

" The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. "

" By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it. "

" Nature provides exceptions to every rule. "

Margaret Fuller

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

Reinhold Niebuhr

" 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

" When one looks at Nature through the glass walls of the Farnsworth House, it takes on a deeper significance than when one stands outside. More of Nature is thus expressed - it becomes part of a greater whole. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight. "

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

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

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

" Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" I had a mild case of polio - not enough to put me in an iron lung, but enough to keep me bedridden for weeks. As I came out of it, my mom wanted to do something for me. She realized that, growing up in the city, I'd missed out on a lot of nature. "

" Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. That's it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can. "

" There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You can't plan nature; you court her. "

" 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. "