3 December 2020 Rupert Brooke Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
3 December 2020 Joseph Addison Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
3 December 2020 John Paul Jones It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
3 December 2020 Nicolas Chamfort Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent.
3 December 2020 Marcus Garvey God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
3 December 2020 Baruch Spinoza Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
3 December 2020 Jose Marti But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.
3 December 2020 Nathaniel Hawthorne In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
3 December 2020 John Stuart Mill The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
3 December 2020 Roger Tory Peterson Birds have wings they’re free they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
3 December 2020 Edward Hopper My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
3 December 2020 Andre Breton Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature’s chief masterpiece is writing well.
3 December 2020 John Fowles In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.
3 December 2020 Maynard James Keenan But I’m a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I’m going to make something out of it.
3 December 2020 William Bartram Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
3 December 2020 Neil Armstrong I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
3 December 2020 Antoine de Saint-Exupery The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
3 December 2020 Laurence Sterne Only the brave know how to forgive… a coward never forgave it is not in his nature.
3 December 2020 Satish Kumar If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.
3 December 2020 Voltaire We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.
3 December 2020 Rupert Sheldrake The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.
3 December 2020 Wendell Berry I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
3 December 2020 David Attenborough Nature isn’t positive in that way. It doesn’t aim itself at you. It’s not being unkind to you.
