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" There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You can't plan nature; you court her. "

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" Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" Nature abhors annihilation. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. "

" How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate. "

" Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow. "

Abraham Lincoln

" 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. "

Calvin Coolidge

" The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. "

Saint Teresa of Avila

" The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything. "

" I love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I'm not a gardener or anything like that. I think I may be, eventually. I was raised in the city, so I don't have that skill set, but my heart is more with the dirt than the concrete. It's an unrequited love with nature - a one-way love affair. "

" Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. "

Marcus Aurelius

" Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. "

" In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. "

" I'm continually inspired by nature, and the rainbow is one of nature's greatest optical phenomenons. The sighting of a rainbow never fails to bring a smile to people's faces. They signify optimism and positivity: with them comes the sunshine after the rain. "

Matthew Williamson

" Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer. "

Bryant H. McGill

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

" All men are by nature born equally free and independent. "

" The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself. "

" The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" 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. "

Walter Lippmann

" In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself. "

Ramana Maharshi

" As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power. "

" The whole thrust of modern art, as far as I understand it, is expanding the role of the artist as a kind of esthetician, someone who actually spends his time, is trained in a way to deal with qualities. "

" When I grew up in the South, I was taught that segregation was the will of God, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that women were by nature in inferior to men, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that it was okay to hate other religions, and especially the Jews, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. "

John Shelby Spong

" Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way. "

" Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient. "

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

Emily Dickinson

" None of us can claim to be fair and square in love - and I'm definitely not a hypocrite! Humans are built to evolve with time. It depends on the nature of the relationship you share with a person. It is there today, tomorrow it may be gone; c'est la vie. "

" There's no night without stars. "

" Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring? "

William C. Bryant