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" This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness. "

Richard Jefferies

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" The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency. "

" Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence. "

" Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground. "

" One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star. "

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

Johann Georg Hamann

" Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul. "

" Autumn's the mellow time. "

William Allingham

" I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something. "

" I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet. "

" I concluded that all religions had the same foundation - a belief in the supernatural - a power above nature that man could influence by worship - by sacrifice and prayer. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Nature provides exceptions to every rule. "

Margaret Fuller

" I have always understood the Nazis because I am of that sort by nature. "

William Golding

" Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest. "

" Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gentle undulating surface of lakes, I find inspiration in the movement of water. Sometimes I think about the journey the water has traveled, reconnecting me to the larger cycles of nature. "

" I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them. "

Roger Tory Peterson

" By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop. "

" It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

" This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. "

" The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared. "

" A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. "

" All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. "

" 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. "

" A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. "

" The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children. "

Henry Morton Stanley

" 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. "

" 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

" Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. "

Nathaniel Hawthorne

" Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder. "

" I am two with nature. "