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" To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. "

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" Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power. "

" If we could establish a deep abiding relationship with nature, we would never kill an animal for our appetite; we would never harm, vivisect, a monkey, a dog, a guinea pig for our benefit. We would find other ways to heal our wounds, heal our bodies. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

" The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. "

" Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be. "

" Sound is the vocabulary of nature. "

Pierre Schaeffer

" Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us. "

" Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. "

" It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book. "

" The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it. "

" Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. "

" There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another. "

" 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. "

" For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! "

" You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. "

" Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

Johann Georg Hamann

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

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

Adrian Cronauer

" Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. "

Arthur C. Clarke

" Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. "

" Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. "

Albert Einstein

" We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets. "

" The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening. "

Wallace Stevens

" All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things. "

" The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight. "

William C. Bryant

" The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. "

" Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains. "

" I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. "

" Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. "

Marcus Aurelius