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" The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted. "

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" Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. "

" There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good. "

" 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

" The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snowboarding, and I'm always around nature. I look at everything and think, 'Who couldn't believe there's a God? Is all this a mistake?' It just blows me away. "

" Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. "

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

" The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller. "

" A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. "

C. Northcote Parkinson

" All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. "

" There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool. "

" Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself. "

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

" If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature. "

" I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch. "

" We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us. "

" Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest. "

" Nature is the fountain's head, the source from whence all originality must spring. "

" How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! "

Emily Dickinson

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

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

" 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

" There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. "

" Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault. "

Joseph Smith, Jr.

" 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. "

" Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes and docile creatures. There is no payoff to getting the warm fuzzies in the presence of rats, snakes, mosquitoes, cockroaches, herpes simplex and the rabies virus. "

" I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them. "

Roger Tory Peterson

" I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough. "

" What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

" 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. "

" Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil. "