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" The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. "

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" Moonlight is sculpture. "

Nathaniel Hawthorne

" 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

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

" Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. "

" Nature is a petrified magic city. "

" One can ascend to a higher development only by bringing rhythm and repetition into one's life. Rhythm holds sway in all nature. "

" 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. "

" Earth is a flower and it's pollinating. "

" Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power. "

" Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons. "

" Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. "

Mary Wollstonecraft

" The essence of lying is in deception, not in words. "

" The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature. "

Abraham Lincoln

" Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon. "

" Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man. "

" No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds. "

" 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. "

" The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only. "

Joseph Wood Krutch

" Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the earth and nature. "

" There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. "

Henry David Thoreau

" Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial. "

" The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. "

" The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" We need to take a leaf out of nature's book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash. "

" Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close. "

" 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

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

" Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. "

Arthur C. Clarke