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" Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature. "

Adrian Cronauer

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

" Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" The skull is nature's sculpture. "

" Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control. "

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. "

Adrian Cronauer

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

" During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks. "

John James Audubon

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

" If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. "

" The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money. "

" They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. "

" As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway. "

" 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. "

" Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. "

" 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

" 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. "

" The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea. "

Vladimir Nabokov

" No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. "

William Howard Taft

" 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. "

" A dog is a vehicle, you know; a dog is a window to Mother Nature, and that's the closest species we have. "

" I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. "

" And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun. "

" Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. "

" Nature's my muse and it's been my passion. "

" Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder. "

" Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else. "

" 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

" Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. "