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~ To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. ~

~ The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Nature is what she is - amoral and persistent. ~

Stephen Jay Gould

~ Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses. ~

Arthur Keith

~ Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race. ~

Henry G. Stott

~ Engineers participate in the activities which make the resources of nature available in a form beneficial to man and provide systems which will perform optimally and economically. ~

L. M. K. Boelter

~ Engineering is the practice of safe and economic application of the scientific laws governing the forces and materials of nature by means of organization, design and construction, for the general benefit of mankind. ~

S. E. Lindsay

~ Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man. ~

Tredgold

~ Nature has always had more force than education. ~

Voltaire

~ Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind. ~

Albert Einstein

~ The royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war; This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea. ~

William Shakespeare

~ England has always been disinclined to accept human nature. ~

E. M. Forster

~ Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing "Embraceable You" in spats. ~

Woody Allen

~ For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. ~

Martin Luther

~ Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~

John Muir

~ Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges -- battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood. ~

Billy Graham

~ Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily to be had for money. ~

Sir Henry Taylor

~ Prodigality is the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one.It comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily had for money. ~

Sir Henry Taylor

~ Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another. ~

John Muir

~ Everything in excess is opposed to nature. ~

Hippocrates

~ All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects. ~

James Young Simpson

~ Topographically the country is magnificent -- and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak. ~

Henry Miller

~ When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away. ~

Stewart Brand

~ One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one\'s model, and, above all, of the means of expression. ~

Paul Cezanne

~ There is no need to express art in terms of nature. It can perfectly well be expressed in terms of geometry and the exact sciences. ~

Georges Vantongerloo

~ Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity. ~

L.A. Safian

~ The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard. ~

Luther Standing Bear

~ When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard. ~

Lakota

~ Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them. ~

Helen Rowland

~ If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn. ~

Bernie Siegel

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