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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

William Cowper

Poet · English · 1731 – 1800

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

Thomas Moore

Poet · Irish · 1779 – 1852

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.

Robert Collier

Publisher · American

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Poet · English · 1806 – 1861

Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.

Hans Hofmann

Artist · German · 1880 – 1966

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

John Acton

Historian · English · 1834 – 1902

There are always, of course, job losses of a cyclical nature in a recession.

Tim Bishop

Politician · American · b. 1950

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

William Howard Taft

President · American · 1857 – 1930

What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.

Robert Burton

Writer · English · 1577 – 1640

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poet · American · 1807 – 1882

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.

Jessamyn West

Author · American · 1902 – 1984

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Physicist · 1742 – 1799

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

Walt Disney

Cartoonist · American · 1901 – 1966

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Blaise Pascal

Philosopher · French · 1623 – 1662

For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.

Chief Joseph

Leader · d. 1904

Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.

Horace

Poet · Roman

And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.

Minoru Yamasaki

Architect · American · 1912 – 1986

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Coco Chanel

Designer · French · 1883 – 1971

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher · German · 1844 – 1900

I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself.

Robert Mapplethorpe

Photographer · American · 1946 – 1989

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Francis Bacon

Philosopher · English · 1561 – 1626

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

Karl Kraus

Writer · Austrian · 1874 – 1936

I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.

Constance Baker Motley

Activist · American · 1921 – 2005

But we ought to consider the natural form and shape of a horse, that we may work him according to nature.

William Cavendish

Civil Servant · British · d. 1557

Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.

Robert Crippen

Astronaut · American · b. 1937

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

Muhammad Iqbal

Poet · Pakistani · 1877 – 1938

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

Stephen Gardiner

Architect · British · 1924 – 2007

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

William Hazlitt

Critic · English · 1778 – 1830

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Physicist · 1742 – 1799

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

Hal Borland

Author · American · 1900 – 1978

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

John Ruskin

Writer · English · 1819 – 1900

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.

Carol P. Christ

Educator

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

Charles Lindbergh

Aviator · American · 1902 – 1974

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Explorer · French · 1910 – 1997

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

Gertrude Stein

Author · American · 1874 – 1946

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

Margaret Thatcher

Leader · English · b. 1925

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

H. P. Lovecraft

Novelist · American · 1890 – 1937

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

Brian Mulroney

Statesman · Canadian · b. 1939

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poet · American · 1803 – 1882

The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Scientist · Polish · 1473 – 1543

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

Eric Hoffer

Writer · American · 1902 – 1983

You may make some mistakes-but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Joel Osteen

Clergyman · American · b. 1963

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

Napoleon Hill

Writer · American · 1883 – 1970

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Plato

Philosopher · Greek

What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?

Aeschylus

Poet · Greek

The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Journalist · American · 1890 – 1998

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

Marcus Fabius Quintilian

Philosopher · Roman

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Tennessee Williams

Dramatist · American · 1911 – 1983

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