977 private quotes tagged nature

“Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.” — Yoko Ono

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“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.” — Mother Teresa

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“Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.” — May Sarton

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“It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.” — Elvis Presley

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“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.” — E. E. Cummings

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“I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.” — Walt Disney

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“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” — Henri Matisse

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“The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.” — Alfred Austin

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“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.” — George Santayana

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“As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.” — Albrecht Durer

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“Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'” — Robin Williams

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“While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.” — Larry Bird

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“I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!” — Zac Efron

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“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.” — Jane Austen

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“To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.” — George Santayana

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“Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.” — Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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“There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.” — Alfred Austin

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“The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.” — William Hazlitt

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“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” — Anais Nin

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“There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.” — Joseph Addison

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“Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” — Hans Christian Anderson

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“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.” — Langston Hughes

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“As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.” — Arnold J. Toynbee

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“Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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“We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.” — William Hazlitt

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