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

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" Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her. "

" Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage. "

" The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps. "

" A walk in nature is a perfect backdrop to combine exercise, prayer, and meditation while enhancing the benefit of these activities. "

" Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. "

Garrison Keillor

" I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid. "

" Read nature; nature is a friend to truth. "

" Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. "

William Shakespeare

" The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself. "

" 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. "

" 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

" The groves were God's first temples. "

William C. Bryant

" The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man. "

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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

Werner Heisenberg

" Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. "

Langston Hughes

" I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow. "

Franz Grillparzer

" In terms of immigration, we're seeing a lot of Democrats and Republicans use the really elastic term, 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform,' and they don't totally understand what that means. For us in El Paso, it's part of a larger discussion about the nature of the border. "

" Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions. "

" On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. "

" In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light. "

" Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. "

" Nature provides exceptions to every rule. "

Margaret Fuller

" I will talk about two sets of things. One is how productivity and collaboration are reinventing the nature of work, and how this will be very important for the global economy. And two, data. In other words, the profound impact of digital technology that stems from data and the data feedback loop. "

" One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. "

" By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it. "

" Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy. "

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

" Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. "

" I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together. "

Carl von Clausewitz