3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
3 December 2020 Edwin Hubbel Chapin A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.
3 December 2020 Aristotle He who can be, and therefore is, another’s, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
3 December 2020 Mick Jagger The elusive nature of love… it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it’s just fluttering and it’s gone.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
3 December 2020 Thomas Moore And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch’d by the thorns.
3 December 2020 Julie Andrews I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.
3 December 2020 Camille Paglia Although I’m an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.
3 December 2020 Jane Austen To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
3 December 2020 George Santayana To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
3 December 2020 Harriet Ann Jacobs The beautiful spring came and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
3 December 2020 James Buchan To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you’re better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature – and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.
3 December 2020 Jack Herer Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.
3 December 2020 Pliny the Elder Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
3 December 2020 Hugh Jackman That’s all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.
