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" 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

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" Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. "

" 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

" Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not. "

" Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. "

" I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it. "

" Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one. "

Robert Baden-Powell

" We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality. "

Abdolkarim Soroush

" The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. "

" 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. "

" What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his? "

Emile M. Cioran

" 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. "

" It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave. "

" Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born smarter than the rest of us. Whether we like it or not, Mother Nature does not dole these characteristics out evenly. "

" 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. "

" Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. "

Alfred Lord Tennyson

" Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see. "

" We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Suspicion is only another form of cowardice. The man who suspects constantly suspects because he is afraid. Whenever you find a man with a free, frank, generous, brave nature, you will find that man without suspicion. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" All men are by nature born equally free and independent. "

" Nature is the purest thing we can touch and observe. It can be the most beautiful and also the most devastating. "

" The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. "

" I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have. "

" Autumn's the mellow time. "

William Allingham

" High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. "

" The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets. "

" In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. "

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

Reinhold Niebuhr

" I am fascinated by people's flaws and delusions: all the messy bits of human nature we all try to pretend we don't have. "

" Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art. "

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

Alexander Hamilton