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" Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the earth and nature. "

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" A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. "

" I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels. "

" There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. "

R. Buckminster Fuller

" I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature. "

" I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed. "

Annie Leibovitz

" You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor. "

Alexander the Great

" The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution. "

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

" Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere. "

" My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me. "

" I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm not straight. I'm just curious. "

" Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion. "

" 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

" But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers? "

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

Robert Smithson

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

" 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. "

Cyrano de Bergerac

" All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things. "

" 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. "

" Get a composter and let nature breakdown your compostable trash and use the remains as mulch for your plants. "

Gretchen Bleiler

" The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces. "

" 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. "

" Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world? "

Alexander the Great

" I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism. "

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

H. P. Lovecraft

" Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves. "

Werner Heisenberg

" And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun. "

" The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?' "

" Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry. "