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" Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. "

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" Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton. "

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

" Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them. "

" The nature of things is dharma. "

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

" I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed. "

Antoine Lavoisier

" I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have. "

" I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid. "

" You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid. "

" To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. "

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

" The stars that have most glory have no rest. "

" As the twig is bent the tree inclines. "

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

" The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world. "

Georges Simenon

" Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises. "

" We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology, their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life. "

" When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art. "

" 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. "

" To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart. "

Charles Dickens

" Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. "

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

" This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness. "

Richard Jefferies

" 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. "

" And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. "

William Shakespeare

" I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own. "

" 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

" The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more. "

" If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. "

" The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. "

Reinhold Niebuhr