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I have called this principle,
by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved,
by the term of Natural Selection.
- Charles Darwin
Nature and human life are as various
as our several constitutions.
Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
- Henry David Thoreau
Dance like no one is watching,
love like you'll never be hurt.
Sing like no one is listening.
Live life like it's heaven on earth.
- Anonymous (various attributions and alternate phrasings)
No matter how much cats fight,
there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
- Abraham Lincoln
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It appears to be a law that you cannot have
a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
- Henry David Thoreau
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl
could want in her life, except for good taste in men.
- Anonymous
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Flowers are Nature's messengers -
reminders of an unspeakable beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is sanctuary in being alone with nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God has cared for these trees,
saved them from drought, disease, avalanches,
and a thousand tempests and floods.
But he cannot save them from fools.
- John Muir
Man's nature is not essentially evil.
Brute nature has been known to
yield to the influence of love.
You must never despair of human nature.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
- Woody Allen
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet
and steady and loyal and enduring a nature
that it will last through a whole lifetime,
if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain
The fog unrolls itself to be a prayer rug to the mountains.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is more of good nature than of good sense
at the bottom of most marriages.
- Henry David Thoreau
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Trees are the earth's endless effort
to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Pay attention to rainbows, and snowflakes,
butterflies and the songs of birds,
the crash of storm-driven waves
and the mirror-surface of a quiet pond.
Let the depths of nature become a part of your innermost being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Getting fired is nature's way to telling you
that you had the wrong job in the first place.
- Hal Lancaster
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Walter Bagehot
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
Nature is not human hearted.
- Lao Tzu
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction
because of the variety of factors in operation,
not because of any lack of order in nature.
- Albert Einstein
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening
our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature and its beauty.
- Albert Einstein
Nature never breaks her own laws.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
Nature hates calculators.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All my life through, the new sights
of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
- Marie Curie
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask.
She has long ago taken her resolution.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed,
but nature does not depend on us.
We are not the only experiment.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter
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
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity;
so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
- Zhuangzi
What a book a devil's chaplain might write
on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low,
and horribly cruel work of nature!
- Charles Darwin
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing.
None is excluded, but excludes himself.
You have only to push aside the curtain.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it.
I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keep close to Nature's heart...
and break clear away, once in awhile,
and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods.
Wash your spirit clean.
- John Muir
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
The primal rhythmic power
and resonant sound of waves on the shore
are like the earth's heartbeat,
and become our connection with the body of nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are certain pursuits which,
if not wholly poetic and true,
do at least suggest a nobler and finer
relation to nature than we know.
The keeping of bees, for instance.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station,
through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
- George Washington Carver
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Take a course in good water and air;
and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own.
Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
- John Muir
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Water is the driving force of all nature.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
Joy in looking and comprehending
is nature's most beautiful gift.
- Albert Einstein
When nature has work to be done,
she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I always like walking in the rain,
so no one can see me crying.
- Charlie Chaplin
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- John Muir
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
There are moments when all anxiety
and stated toil are becalmed
in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
- Henry David Thoreau
Study nature, love nature,
stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in,
where nature may heal and cheer
and give strength to the body and soul.
- John Muir
Every blade of grass has an angel
that bends over it and whispers, "grow! grow!
- Talmud
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
- John Muir
The way to do fieldwork is never to
come up for air until it is all over.
- Margaret Mead
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools,
but the gentle touches of air and water
working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
- Henry David Thoreau
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything.
It should be of the hill. Belonging to it.
Hill and house should live together
each the happier for the other.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy,
if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you,
if the simple things in nature have a message you understand,
Rejoice, for your soul is alive.
- Eleanora Duse
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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