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" To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. "

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" One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others' weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all - to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high. "

Ezra Taft Benson

" Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. That's it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can. "

" Religion is among the most beautiful and most natural of all things - that religion which 'sees God in clouds and hears Him in the wind,' which endows every object of sense with a living soul, which finds in the system of nature whatever is holy, mysterious and venerable, and inspires the bosom with sentiments of awe and veneration. "

" To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. "

Henry Ward Beecher

" I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily. "

" Colors are the smiles of nature. "

" I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself. "

Edward Steichen

" For American foreign aid to become more effective, it must embrace the power of partnerships, access the transformative nature of free enterprise, and leverage the abundant resources that can come from the private sector. "

" Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature. "

Adrian Cronauer

" The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature. "

Maria Montessori

" You can't just let nature run wild. "

" The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all. "

" How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. "

Arthur C. Clarke

" 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 have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory. "

" There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. "

Alexander Hamilton

" When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. "

James Whitcomb Riley

" When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused of being a bit of a spitfire, so in that way, I absolutely live up to the stereotype. The red hair suits my personality. I was a terrible blonde! "

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

" I think the word 'soul' - it depends on what you define by 'soul.' If you're defining it as a mystical aura that is outside the body, I cannot measure that. If you're talking about soul as human nature, the rank of spectrum of behaviors and reactions that we know humans produce under certain circumstances, that is measurable. "

Miguel Nicolelis

" Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. "

" All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. "

" He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. "

" In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music. "

" Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions. "

" Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. "

" Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. "

" If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. "

" Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. "

" Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. "

William Ruckelshaus