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" Nature governs man by no principle more fixed than that which leads him to pursue his interest. "

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

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

" It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. "

Edgar Allan Poe

" A manufacturing nation is, in every sense of the word, dependent on others. Look to England! Cut off from the markets of the world, misery and ruin await her. "

" Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. "

William Shakespeare

" To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another. "

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Rabindranath Tagore

" For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces. "

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

" By 'justice', I understand nothing more than that bond which is necessary to keep the interest of individuals united, without which men would return to their original state of barbarity. All punishments which exceed the necessity of preserving this bond are, in their nature, unjust. "

Cesare Beccaria

" There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature. "

" 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. "

Phylicia Rashad

" Be truthful, nature only sides with truth. "

" Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature. "

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

" I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. "

" In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. "

" Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. "

" Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains. "

" As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. "

" It is by these, the people, that I have been clothed with the high powers which they have seen fit to confide to their Chief Executive, and been charged with the solemn responsibility under which those powers are to be exercised. "

" 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. "

" This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. "

" Little white lies are part of everyday life. If you're in court being charged with a felony, you're probably going to be tempted to lie. Or if your girlfriend asks you if the sweater she is wearing makes her look fat; you're going to lie because you love that person. There are different reasons and justifications to lie; it's human nature. "

" To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. "

" Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing. "

Gerard Manley Hopkins

" Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive. "

Bernard de Mandeville

" I have always understood the Nazis because I am of that sort by nature. "

William Golding

" 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. "

" A walk in nature is a perfect backdrop to combine exercise, prayer, and meditation while enhancing the benefit of these activities. "