977 private quotes tagged nature

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

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

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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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“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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“Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.” — Auguste Rodin

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

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

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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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“Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?” — Charles Baudelaire

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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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“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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“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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“There is no forgiveness in nature.” — Ugo Betti

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“Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.” — Bernard Meltzer

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