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

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" Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. "

" Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. "

" The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence. "

Walter Lippmann

" In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light. "

" Nature was my kindergarten. "

William Christopher Handy

" The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. "

" The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. "

" For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. "

Vincent Van Gogh

" Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes. "

Camille Pissarro

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" Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves. "

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

" Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup. "

" 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. "

" I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. "

" 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. "

" Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul. "

" We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds. "

" 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 moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. "

" I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it. "

" We all have these shades in our nature: it's a spectrum within all of us. "

" I love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I'm not a gardener or anything like that. I think I may be, eventually. I was raised in the city, so I don't have that skill set, but my heart is more with the dirt than the concrete. It's an unrequited love with nature - a one-way love affair. "

" We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

" 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

" Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow. "

Abraham Lincoln

" Resource efficiency is the wrong metric. We should use nature as the measure, using nature's wisdom as a template for our economic systems. "

Douglas Tompkins

" The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself. "

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

Thomas Jefferson

" A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. "