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" Winter is not a season, it's an occupation. "
Sinclair Lewis
Winter
Nature
Occupation
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" 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. "
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" The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. "
Reinhold Niebuhr
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" That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in. "
Whoopi Goldberg
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" The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased. "
Alexander Hamilton
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" Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. "
Al Gore
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" We all have these shades in our nature: it's a spectrum within all of us. "
Johnny Flynn
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" Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. "
Winston Churchill
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" I had a mild case of polio - not enough to put me in an iron lung, but enough to keep me bedridden for weeks. As I came out of it, my mom wanted to do something for me. She realized that, growing up in the city, I'd missed out on a lot of nature. "
Robert Redford
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" The fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors. The sun is out, you get warmth on your skin but there's the coolness of the breeze. It's really comfortable. "
Ricky Skaggs
Sun
Time
Colors
" Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. "
Khalil Gibran
Nature
Play
Feet
" The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle. "
Leonardo da Vinci
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Giving
" My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm. "
John McGraw
Boy
Wind
Storm
" Clever of me to become a critic. We critics scrutinize and show off to a higher end. For a greater good. Our manners, our tastes, our declarations are welcomed. Superior for life. Except when we're not. Except when we're dismissed or denounced as envious or petty, as derivatives and dependents by nature. Second class for life. "
Margo Jefferson
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Nature
End
" Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses. "
Nikola Tesla
More
Nature
Us
" Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be. "
Rebecca Solnit
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Nature
" Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. "
Hal Borland
Patience
Trees
Persistence
" There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble. "
Sinclair Lewis
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Sense Of Humor
Humor
" For me, to find a place that doesn't have an organized tour going to it is becoming more and more difficult. A lot of times it involves danger of a political nature - places where the adventure-travel trips can't go because they can't get any liability insurance. "
Tim Cahill
Nature
Me
Place
" The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. "
Nikola Tesla
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Law
" I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet. "
Joan Jett
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Nature
Science
" Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form. "
Sinclair Lewis
Courage
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" Earth is a flower and it's pollinating. "
Neil Young
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Nature
Earth
" Seems you can't outsmart Mother Nature. "
Mark Hyman
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Mother
" Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them. "
Christian Nestell Bovee
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See
Tears
" He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade. "
Samuel Johnson
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He
Enjoy
" One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought. "
Daniel Boone
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Country
Nature
" Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. "
Sinclair Lewis
Selling
Way
Economic
" The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency. "
Herbert Read
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Efficiency
" We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous. "
David Suzuki
Society
Nature
Mud