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" There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. "

Robert Wilson Lynd

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" The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him. "

" Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere. "

" I grew up in Brooklyn, and my parents were Holocaust survivors, so they never taught me anything about nature, but they taught me a lot about gratitude. "

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" The soul is one in its nature, but its entities are many. "

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" The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve. "

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

" The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. "

Cyrano de Bergerac

" 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. "

" But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean. "

H. P. Lovecraft

" One can ascend to a higher development only by bringing rhythm and repetition into one's life. Rhythm holds sway in all nature. "

" Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise. "

" No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. "

William Howard Taft

" Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. "

" For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity. "

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" Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out. "

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" Animals come from nature. They were not designed. All my inspiration comes from nature, whether it's an animal or the layout of bark or of a leaf. Sometimes my patterns are very bold, and you can barely see where they come from, but all the textures and all the prints come out of nature. "

Diane von Furstenberg

" Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation. "

" I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. "

" 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. "

" Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. "

" 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. "

" Ever since I was a small child, I've had this feeling - it's in my nature, and so it's not even pretentious - that if everyone's going one way, I will go the other, just by some kind of spirit of defiance. "

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" I love not man the less, but Nature more. "

" Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone. "

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" To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. "

" Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves. "

" Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. "