977 private quotes tagged nature

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

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“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

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“The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.” — Dennis Prager

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“We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.” — Ellsworth Huntington

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“All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.” — Thomas Browne

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“Great art picks up where nature ends.” — Marc Chagall

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

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

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“Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.” — Fay Weldon

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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 courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.” — Edward Gibbon

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“If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.” — Satish Kumar

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“Everything in excess is opposed to nature.” — Hippocrates

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“The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.” — William Ellery Channing

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“Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?” — Rose Kennedy

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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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“The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.” — Galileo Galilei

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“Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.” — Albert Schweitzer

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“Everything is blooming most recklessly if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

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“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.” — Carl Reiner

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“I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.” — Leo Buscaglia

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