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“If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.”— Kurt Vonnegut
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“He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.”— Plato
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“Earth laughs in flowers.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.”— Alan Watts
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“Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.”— Benjamin Franklin
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“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”— Socrates
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“Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.”— Marcus Aurelius
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“Nature is wont to hide herself.”— Heraclitus
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“Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.”— Tom Hanks
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“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.”— Roger Miller
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“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.”— Emily Dickinson
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“He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.”— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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“As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.”— Woody Allen
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“Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.”— William Shakespeare
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“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”— Walt Whitman
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“Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.”— Franz Kafka
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“To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.”— Plato
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“When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.”— Jules Verne
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“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.”— Stephen Hawking
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“Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.”— Woody Allen
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“Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.”— Francis Bacon
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“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”— Henry Ward Beecher
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“Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?”— Herman Melville
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“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”— Marcus Aurelius