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" Water is the driving force of all nature. "

Leonardo da Vinci

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" 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. "

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" The peacock has become one of my regular sources of inspiration from nature. "

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" 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. "

" Current psychological priesthoods ignore the fact that the profession of psychology was originated by Gustav Theodor Fechner, a physicist who recognized that the key to understanding human nature was the relationship between external stimuli and the brain. "

" The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels. "

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" One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself. "

" Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives. "

" 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

" I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature. "

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

" The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution. "

" Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings. "

Marianne Williamson

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

" 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

" 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

" Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snowboarding, and I'm always around nature. I look at everything and think, 'Who couldn't believe there's a God? Is all this a mistake?' It just blows me away. "

" To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. "

" Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. "

" The smallest feline is a masterpiece. "

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" There are always flowers for those who want to see them. "

" 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

" Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton. "

" Agriculture changes the landscape more than anything else we do. It alters the composition of species. We don't realize it when we sit down to eat, but that is our most profound engagement with the rest of nature. "

" One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. "

" Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage. "