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" There is, in our nature, a disposition to indulgence, a secret desire to escape from labor, which, unless hourly combated, will overcome and destroy the best faculties of our minds and paralyze our most useful powers. "

Dorothea Dix

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" With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea. "

" One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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" The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor. "

" I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. "

" I am contracting continually a debt of gratitude which time will never see canceled. There is a treasury from which it will be repaid, but I do not dispense its stores. "

" The fabled origin of the laurel is this. Daphne, daughter of the river Peneus, offended by the persecutions of Apollo, implored succour of the gods, who changed her into a laurel tree. Apollo crowned his head with the leaves and ordered that forever after, the tree should be sacred to him. "

" If we had only those things which are procured with ease and freedom from danger, we should find the comforts and luxuries, if not many of the necessaries of life, considerably diminished. "

" Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws. "

" Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false. "

" I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have. "

" That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit. "

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

" In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. "

" We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. "

" The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. "

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

" There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. "

R. Buckminster Fuller

Butterfly

You

Nothing

" No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings. "

" Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight. "

" Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. "

" You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it. "

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

" The sea has neither meaning nor pity. "

" 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. "

" All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. "

" Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature. "

" Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. "

" I was born in Karachi, where my father used to work in the sales department of a pharmaceutical company. The nature of his job required him to travel, so we moved to Athens, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, and Riyadh and then went to Manchester during the Gulf War, moving back to Lahore closer to my father's retirement. "

" I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree. "