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~ Insanity is not a distinct and separate empire; our ordinary life borders upon it, and we cross the frontier in some part of our nature. ~

Henri Taine

~ Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. ~

Thomas Hardy

~ I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory. ~

Julius Caesar

~ Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity ~

William Wordsworth

~ Gossip is nature's telephone. ~

Sholom Aleichem

~ Gambling is a principle inherent in nature. ~

Edmund Burke

~ Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food ~

Joseph Butler

~ We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. ~

Mother Teresa

~ Improvement is nature. ~

Leigh Hunt

~ In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous ~

?Aristotle

~ Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed ~

Francis Bacon

~ If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere. ~

Vincent Van Gogh

~ But a weed is simply a plant that wants to grow where people want something else. In blaming nature, people mistake the culprit. Weeds are people's idea, not nature's. ~

Unknown

~ Nature abhors a garden ~

Michael Pollan

~ Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything. Without going beyond his own nature, one can achieve ultimate wisdom. Therefore, the intelligent man knows all he needs to know without going away, And sees all he needs to see without looking elsewhere, And does all he needs to do wihout undue exertion ~

Lao-Tzu

~ My advice to gardeners is to believe what you see as temporal entertainment; a gift from nature. Do not pass on your interpretation as gospel. Do not seek interpretation from others. ~

Thomas Clothier

~ Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today. ~

Friedrich Nietzsche

~ Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws ~

Calvin Coolidge

~ Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer. ~

D. H. Lawrence

~ Don't give your mind permission to get disturbed. A disturbed mind is easily influenced. This will cost you your peace. Learn to maintain your peace by freeing yourself from attachments. Competing or comparing yourself with others will not allow you to focus inwards. An inner focus allows you to keep your eye on your higher self. Remember your original nature. It allows you to forge a link with the Divine. Then it becomes easy to recognise useless thoughts and replace them with a spiritual perspective. A calm mind is not just peaceful, it is focused, self-directing and Divine. ~

Unknown

~ Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. ~

Charles Dickens

~ We speak of eyeball-to-eyeball encounters between men great and small. Even more reaching and revealing of character is the eyeball-to-golfball confrontation, whereby our most secret natures are mercilessly tested by a small, round, whitish object with no mind or will but with a very definite life of its own, and with whims perverse and beatific ~

John Stewart Martin

~ Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to say that I don't know the name of one of them. The glamour and romance would pass away from them if they were all classified and ticketed in one's brain. But when a man is hot and flurried, and full of his own little ruffled dignities and infinitesimal misfortunes, then a star bath is the finest thing in the world. ~

Conan Doyle

~ Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay ~

Plato

~ Life is magic, the way nature works seems to be quite magical ~

Jonas Salk

~ Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of womanís sexuality. Every pregnant woman has body and self taken over by a chthonian force beyond her control. In the welcome pregnancy, this is a happy sacrifice. But in the unwanted one, initated by rape or misadventure, it is a horror. Such unfortunate women look directly into natureís heart of darkness. For a fetus is a benign tumor, a vampire who steals in order to live. The so-called miracle of birth is nature getting her own way ~

Camille Paglia

~ Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality. Every pregnant woman has body and self taken over by a chthonian force beyond her control. In the welcome pregnancy, this is a happy sacrifice. But in the unwanted one, initiated by rape or misadventure, it is a horror. Such unfortunate women look directly into nature's heart of Darkness. For a fetus is a benign tumor, a vampire who steals in order to live. The so-called miracle of birth is nature getting her own way. ~

Camille Paglia

~ The freedom of Cross Country is so primitive. It's woman vs. Nature. ~

Lynn Jennings

~ I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. ~

Frank Lloyd Wright

~ Zen, like life, defies exact definition, but its essence is the experience, moment by moment, of our own existence -- a natural, spontaneous encounter, unclouded by the suppositions and expectations that come between us and reality. It is, if you like, a paring down of life until we see it as it really is, free from our illusions; it is merely a divestment of ourselves until we recognize our own true nature. ~

DAVID FONTANA

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