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" The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. "

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" One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them. "

" Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. "

" The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do. "

" There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. "

Robert Wilson Lynd

" 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

" It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. "

" In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. "

Nathaniel Hawthorne

" The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action. "

" With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea. "

" What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. "

Werner Heisenberg

" It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. "

" Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God. "

" Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation. "

" No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment. "

" The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor. "

Zora Neale Hurston

" Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!' "

" The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her. "

" All the universe is full of the lives of perfect creatures. "

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

" The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. "

" 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. "

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

Antoine Lavoisier

" A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. "

" Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. "

H. P. Lovecraft

" He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. "

" Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see. "

" We must use the wrath of nature as our teacher. "

Bhumibol Adulyadej

" The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature. "

" We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since then we've smoked it up and littered it and dumped too much in too many waters. I don't think it's our privilege to behave this way. "

" We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. "