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~ Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. ~

Wendell Berry

~ Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit ~

Sir Walter Scott

~ Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality. ~

Pierre Corneille

~ The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature. ~

Polykarp Kusch

~ The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres. ~

Bruno Bauer

~ Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature. ~

Zhuangzi

~ To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood. ~

Natan Sharansky

~ There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance. ~

Arthur Helps

~ Tis plain that there is not in nature a point of stability to be found: everything either ascends or declines. When wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home, and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition. ~

Sir Walter Scott

~ Coarse kindness is at least better than coarse anger; and in all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of its dullness. ~

George Eliot

~ People must help one another; it is natures law. ~

Jean de La Fontaine

~ Despite the gardener's best intentions, Nature will improvise. ~

Michael P. Garafalo

~ 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

~ Gardening, I told myself, is the most sociable of hobbies. The very nature of one's field of activities demands an audience. No one wants flowers to blush unseen or waste their sweetness. ~

Barbara Cheney

~ It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing. ~

Marianne Moore

~ What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism. ~

Albert Einstein

~ Through my LSD experience and my new picture of reality, I became aware of the wonder of creation, the magnificence of nature and of the animal and plant kingdom. I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us. ~

Albert Hofmann

~ 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

~ As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power. ~

Thomas Aquinas

~ We thought we would reflect on and complement the international nature of the Kentucky Derby. ~

Chris Morris

~ There is one class of men who from time to time have taken a keen and practical interest in the constitution of the Family, and they are the Statesmen. They have realized how intimately the welfare of the State depends upon the influence and nature of the Families from which it is constituted; and they have endeavoured that the State in turn should mould and influence the Family to its own purposes. ~

HELEN DENDY BOSANQUET

~ What we tried to do is take a quantum leap in sophistication and scope. It gives you a picture of the truly complex nature of what we are trying to do. ~

Timothy Adams

~ Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art. ~

Eleanor Roosevelt

~ A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. ~

Ingrid Bergman

~ The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows. ~

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~ Nature has made us frivolous to console us for our miseries. ~

Voltaire

~ Gardening, I told myself, is the most sociable of hobbies. The very nature of one's field of activities demands an audience. No one wants flowers to blush unseen or waste their sweetness. ~

Barbara Cheney

~ I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. ~

E B White

~ Gardening, I told myself, is the most sociable of hobbies. The very nature of one's field of activities demands an audience. No one wants flowers to blush unseen or waste their sweetness. ~

Barbara Cheney

~ That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution. ~

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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