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~ Then, there's the modern mother-in-law. In her mid 40s, she is the compact car of her breed: efficient, trim, attractive and in harmony with her times. She's pretty stiff competition for the plain young matron who's overweight and under-financed. If there is going to be friction in this relationship, it could start from envy and resentment in the younger woman. But Father Time is on her side, even if Mother Nature played her a dirty trick ~

Abigail Van Buren

~ I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature. ~

Wynn Bullock

~ It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures. ~

Vincent Van Gogh

~ Of course, there will always be those who look only at technicque, who ask "how," while others of a more curious nature will ask "why." Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information. ~

Man ray

~ To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things ~

Ansel Adams

~ Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares. ~

Peter Ustinov

~ Umbrellas, like faces, acquire a certain sympathy with the individual who carries them. May it not be said of the bearers of these inappropriate umbrellas, that they go about the streets 'with a lie in their right hand?' Except in a very few cases of hypocrisy joined to a powerful intellect, men, not by nature, umbrellarians, have tried again and again to become so by art, and yet have failed, have expended their patrimony in the purchase of umbrella after umbrella, and yet have systematically lost them, and have finally, with contrite spirits and shrunken purses, given up their vain struggle, and relied on theft and borrowing for the remainder of their lives. ~

Robert Louis Stevenson

~ Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not be at so much pains to put on the appearance of virtue, if he did not know it was the most proper and effectual means to gain the love and esteem of mankind. ~

Joseph Addison

~ It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage. ~

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

Michael P. Garafalo

~ I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error. ~

Sara Stein

~ 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

~ Flowers are beautiful hieroglyphics of nature, with which she indicates how much she loves us ~

Wolfgang von Geothe

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

?Aristotle

~ Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. ~

Helen Keller

~ Gardening, like sex and food, lies somewhere between art and nature, being wholly neither but partly both. ~

Roger Grounds

~ I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error. ~

Sara Stein

~ Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge. ~

Thomas Edison

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

Vincent Van Gogh

~ A garden is a symbol of man's arrogance, perverting nature to human ends ~

Tim Smit

~ Nature abhors a garden ~

Michael Pollan

~ The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself ~

John Kenneth Galbraith

~ Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game ~

Ted Williams

~ The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be n hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer. ~

George Bernard Shaw

~ The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive. ~

William Ralph Inge

~ Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person. ~

Lord Chesterfield

~ The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it. ~

James Allen

~ All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through LUXURY of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind ~

Tom Watson

~ What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature. ~

Voltaire

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