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" The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. "

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" Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses. "

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

Bhumibol Adulyadej

" Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger. "

Edgar Rice Burroughs

" The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire. "

Pamela Hansford Johnson

" Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. "

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

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

" Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us. "

Bhumibol Adulyadej

" Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. "

" Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" When I grew up in the South, I was taught that segregation was the will of God, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that women were by nature in inferior to men, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that it was okay to hate other religions, and especially the Jews, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. "

John Shelby Spong

" There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. "

Alexander Hamilton

" Nature provides exceptions to every rule. "

Margaret Fuller

" Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. "

Henry David Thoreau

" People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. "

" 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. "

" To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. "

" God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury. "

" Be truthful, nature only sides with truth. "

" Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be. "

Sharon Salzberg

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

" If we could establish a deep abiding relationship with nature, we would never kill an animal for our appetite; we would never harm, vivisect, a monkey, a dog, a guinea pig for our benefit. We would find other ways to heal our wounds, heal our bodies. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

" Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer. "

Andy Goldsworthy

" Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself. "

" Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring? "

William C. Bryant

" The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased. "

Alexander Hamilton

" The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it. "

" My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature. "

" Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. "

" 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 is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not. "

Galileo Galilei