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" When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. "

Vincent Van Gogh

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" No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings. "

" Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God. "

" Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false. "

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

Matthew Williamson

" Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature. "

" There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. "

R. Buckminster Fuller

" On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. "

" Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world. "

" Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff. "

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

" The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin. "

Sargent Shriver

" If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. "

" One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. "

William Shakespeare

" Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves. "

" The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature. "

Abraham Lincoln

" We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us. "

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

" The rainbow is a part of nature, and you have to be in the right place to see it. It's beautiful, all of the colors, even the colors you can't see. That really fit us as a people because we are all of the colors. Our sexuality is all of the colors. We are all the genders, races, and ages. "

" But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers? "

" 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. "

" I can't go against my nature because I am what I am. I don't try to be anyone different to who I am. "

Brian McDermott

" Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere. "

" Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. "

Vincent Van Gogh

" The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon. "

" Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the storms may be. "

Joseph B. Wirthlin

" Nature, of course, has its share in the life of the soul and in numerous manifestations deeply influences human life. But this natural life of the soul is peripheral, mere appendix to the material phenomena of nature. "

Rudolf Christoph Eucken

" I'm a boss by nature. I'm bossy. I'm not imperious, but I don't really want people to curtsy low before me and back out of rooms, but I do like to run things. "

" All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. "

" 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. "