3 December 2020 Napoleon Hill Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
3 December 2020 Walt Whitman A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
3 December 2020 Paul Cezanne Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
3 December 2020 Edward Abbey May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
3 December 2020 Garry Kasparov Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
3 December 2020 Alexander Hamilton There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
3 December 2020 Reinhold Niebuhr The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
3 December 2020 Thomas Szasz No further evidence is needed to show that ‘mental illness’ is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh 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.
3 December 2020 Emily Dickinson To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
3 December 2020 Hermann Hesse What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.
3 December 2020 Andrew Marvell Self-preservation, nature’s first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
3 December 2020 Bjork It’s incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.
3 December 2020 Zhuangzi 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.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Carson We are more than just flesh and bones. There’s a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can’t measure. We can’t find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it’s there.
3 December 2020 Helen Rowland 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.
3 December 2020 Henry Rollins I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.
3 December 2020 Carl Sandburg Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
3 December 2020 Louise Berliawsky Nevelson I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it’s a painful, difficult search within.
3 December 2020 Desiderius Erasmus Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.
