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" The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you. "

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" We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state. "

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

Annie Leibovitz

" There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You can't plan nature; you court her. "

" Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. "

Adlai E. Stevenson

" The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. "

Cyrano de Bergerac

" Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. "

" There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature. "

" The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life. "

" President George W. Bush's aggressive war on Islamic terrorism produced a 100 percent perfect track record of keeping the United States safe from another attack. The result has been increased security for the American people, who, in turn, have become complacent about the true nature of the threat. "

" The body is both a temple and a perfect machine. Our bodies have within them a healing potential, and we nourish this potential with the pure and simple foods found in nature. "

Angela Lindvall

" Although it is true that by fate all things are forced and linked by a necessary and dominant reason, nevertheless the character of our minds is subject to fate in a manner corresponding to their nature and quality. "

" All men are by nature born equally free and independent. "

" Agriculture changes the landscape more than anything else we do. It alters the composition of species. We don't realize it when we sit down to eat, but that is our most profound engagement with the rest of nature. "

" 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. "

" A forest bird never wants a cage. "

" How inscrutable and incomprehensible are the hidden works of Nature! "

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

" Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world. "

" Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature. "

" Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul. "

" Religion is among the most beautiful and most natural of all things - that religion which 'sees God in clouds and hears Him in the wind,' which endows every object of sense with a living soul, which finds in the system of nature whatever is holy, mysterious and venerable, and inspires the bosom with sentiments of awe and veneration. "

" Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development. "

Robert Smithson

" 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. "

" I had a mild case of polio - not enough to put me in an iron lung, but enough to keep me bedridden for weeks. As I came out of it, my mom wanted to do something for me. She realized that, growing up in the city, I'd missed out on a lot of nature. "

" If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently. "

" Everything in excess is opposed to nature. "

" I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do. "

" To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked. "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

" What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars? "

Pliny the Elder

" 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. "

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

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