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" Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

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" Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills. "

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" I hold grudges, but I can't hate nobody; that's not my nature. "

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" The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening. "

" 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. "

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" Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all. "

" Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy. "

" I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage. "

" The word of man is the most durable of all material. "

" Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. "

" When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. "

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

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

" Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven. "

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

" Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers. "

" If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature. "

" There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit. "

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" You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos. "