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" Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! "
Wallace Stevens
Nature
Surprise
Spring
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" The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass. "
Elias Hicks
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Blade
Every
" The poet is the priest of the invisible. "
Wallace Stevens
Poet
Priest
Invisible
" The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. "
John Kenneth Galbraith
Achievement
Personal
Nature
" There are always flowers for those who want to see them. "
Henri Matisse
Always
Who
Want
" As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight. "
Jordan Peterson
Nature
I Am
Laziness
" Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness. "
Benjamin Disraeli
Sometimes
Gladness
Like
" 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. "
Ansel Adams
Nature
See
Live
" The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream. "
Wallace Stevens
Emperor
Ice
Cream
" Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out. "
Steven Weinberg
Like
Nature
Ugly
" All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. "
John Adams
Nature
Constitution
Honor
" Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. "
Russell Baker
You
Suffer
Summer
" In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light. "
Hans Hofmann
Picture
Color
Creates
" 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. "
Sara Teasdale
Beautiful
Blue
Children
" 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. "
John Burroughs
Moral
Stone
Spark
" Human nature is not of itself vicious. "
Thomas Paine
Human
Vicious
Nature
" I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. "
John D. Rockefeller
Nature
Perseverance
Quality
" I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic - I use this metaphor a lot but I'll use it again - it's like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries - it's just what happens with this being, now. "
Alice Walker
World
Self
Nature
" In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Nature
Nor
Consequences
" Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger. "
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Human Nature
Love Is
Love
" Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It's hard to learn when we are winning and on top of the world. "
Yehuda Berg
Winning
World
Human Nature
" When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic. "
Barack Obama
" There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it. "
David Hume
Human Nature
Emotions
Ideas
" It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. "
Wallace Stevens
Unknown
Boredom
Up
" We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. "
Albert Einstein
Still
Us
Know
" I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon. "
Muhammad Iqbal
Movement
Sky
Seen
" If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. "
Luther Burbank
Jury
Laws
Nature
" Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable. "
Diane Ackerman
Season
Hurricane
Nature
" Moonlight is sculpture. "
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sculpture
Nature
Moonlight
" Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. "
Francis Bacon
Overcome
Nature
Hidden
" Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. "
Wallace Stevens
Observation
Accuracy
Thinking