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" When a dragonfly flutters by, you may not realize, but it's the greatest flier in nature. It can hover, fly backwards, even upside down. "

Louie Schwartzberg

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" The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. "

Reinhold Niebuhr

" Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. "

Henry David Thoreau

" Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her. "

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

" I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream. "

" The bluebird carries the sky on his back. "

Henry David Thoreau

" What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. "

Werner Heisenberg

" Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature. "

" A walk in nature is a perfect backdrop to combine exercise, prayer, and meditation while enhancing the benefit of these activities. "

" Nature is the art of God. "

Dante Alighieri

" People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature. "

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

" We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology, their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life. "

" I waste most of the day, then finally start to write around 3 P.M., totally disgusted with myself for my wasteful nature. "

Alain de Botton

" I love not man the less, but Nature more. "

" Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. "

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

" Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive. "

Bernard de Mandeville

" I was born in Karachi, where my father used to work in the sales department of a pharmaceutical company. The nature of his job required him to travel, so we moved to Athens, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, and Riyadh and then went to Manchester during the Gulf War, moving back to Lahore closer to my father's retirement. "

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

Emily Dickinson

" The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne. "

" Resource efficiency is the wrong metric. We should use nature as the measure, using nature's wisdom as a template for our economic systems. "

Douglas Tompkins

" Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. "

Alexander Smith

" Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. "

" In a culture fueled by burnout, a culture that has run itself down, our national resilience becomes compromised. And when our collective immune system is weakened, we become more susceptible to viruses that are part of every culture because they're part of human nature - fear-mongering, scapegoating, conspiracy theories, and demagoguery. "

Arianna Huffington

" Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. "

Nathaniel Hawthorne

" There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature. "

" If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. "

" 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