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

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" Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. "

" Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull. "

" Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend. "

" Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. "

Saint Augustine

" I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude. "

" Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. "

" When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused of being a bit of a spitfire, so in that way, I absolutely live up to the stereotype. The red hair suits my personality. I was a terrible blonde! "

" They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. "

" Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage. "

" Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. "

" One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself. "

" In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. "

Charles Lindbergh

" 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. "

" If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. "

" To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked. "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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

" Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. "

William Ruckelshaus

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

William Shakespeare

" Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature. "

Adrian Cronauer

" Nature provides exceptions to every rule. "

Margaret Fuller

" Nature, of course, has its share in the life of the soul and in numerous manifestations deeply influences human life. But this natural life of the soul is peripheral, mere appendix to the material phenomena of nature. "

Rudolf Christoph Eucken

" Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating. "

Carl von Clausewitz

" Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer. "

" I waste most of the day, then finally start to write around 3 P.M., totally disgusted with myself for my wasteful nature. "

Alain de Botton

" True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right. "

" 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. "

" Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world. "

" To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things. "