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" There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. "
Henry David Thoreau
Nature
Than
Which
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" Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer. "
D. H. Lawrence
Kiss
Fish
Truth
" You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac. "
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Nature
Confidence
Human Nature
" We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough. "
Henry David Thoreau
Tunnel
Princess
World
" How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? "
Henry David Thoreau
Living
Better
How
" Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. "
William Cowper
Name
Nature
Good
" Having plants and flowers in my space makes me feel very calm and Zen. For me, it's important to meditate every morning to be very clear in the head, and nature really helps me do the same thing. "
Nicola Formichetti
Morning
Space
Plants
" Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest. "
Chen Shui-bian
Forest
Nature
Tree
" Nature is a petrified magic city. "
Novalis
Nature
Petrified
City
" We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. "
Anthony Hopkins
Dream
God
Nature
" The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren't laughing, it's not comedy. It's as simple as that. "
Trevor Noah
Purpose
People
Nature
" We need no fanciful teaching regarding the personality of God. What God desires us to know of Him is revealed in His word and His works. The beautiful things of nature reveal His character and His power as Creator. "
Ellen G. White
God
Character
Nature
" In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed. "
Henry David Thoreau
Only
Materials
Manhood
" I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself. "
Edward Steichen
Plants
Roots
Trees
" Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. "
Theodore Roethke
Mountain
Valley
Nature
" The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life. "
Thomas Hobbes
Liberty
Nature
Say
" It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own. "
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Own
Opinion
Nature
" Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings. "
William C. Bryant
Forth
List
Go
" 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
Seed
Plant
Nature
" Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? "
Henry David Thoreau
Life
Human
Human Life
" Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time. "
William Shakespeare
Her
Framed
Strange
" The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated. "
Johann Georg Hamann
Thirst
Nature
Beautiful
" We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. "
Henry David Thoreau
Always
Finding
Our
" Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. "
David Hume
Man
Human Nature
Nature
" Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. "
Henry Adams
Chaos
Man
Nature
" There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. "
Alexander Hamilton
Veterans Day
Rise
Nature
" No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground. "
Annie Besant
Passion
Silence
Nature
" I am fascinated by people's flaws and delusions: all the messy bits of human nature we all try to pretend we don't have. "
Hattie Morahan
Nature
People
Try
" When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees. "
Joseph Joubert
Search
Go
Nature
" No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings. "
Denis Diderot
Nature
Fellow
Human
" Nature is not human hearted. "
Lao Tzu
Hearted
Nature
Human