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" 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. "

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

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

" Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers. "

" Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. "

" As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway. "

" To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. "

" When one looks at Nature through the glass walls of the Farnsworth House, it takes on a deeper significance than when one stands outside. More of Nature is thus expressed - it becomes part of a greater whole. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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" Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives. "

" Everything in excess is opposed to nature. "

" I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. "

" There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it. "

" Forest restoration is a challenging and complex undertaking of raising young trees, transplanting them, and then cultivating them year in, year out in the face of harsh challenges of nature; it is a gigantic nature transformation project to turn all the mountains of the country into 'treasure mountains,' into 'gold mountains.' "

" 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. "

" I am two with nature. "

Woody Allen

Two

I Am

" The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated. "

" What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth. "

" Sweet April showers do spring May flowers. "

" If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living. "

" I'm a boss by nature. I'm bossy. I'm not imperious, but I don't really want people to curtsy low before me and back out of rooms, but I do like to run things. "

Helen Hayes

Nature

Boss

" People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. "

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

" Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms. "

" It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened. "

Philip Sidney

Heart

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" The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. "

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

" I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us. "

" Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. "

" The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence. "

" I'm a nature bug. "

Donna Karan

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