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Moral authority is never retained by
any attempt to hold on to it.
It comes without seeking and
is retained without effort.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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The very nature of the world is constant change.
You set a goal and create a plan to achieve it;
then the assumptions on which you
based your plan change - they always do.
The challenge is to retain your goals
while adapting your tactics.
Relax and stay flexible in order to reach
your goals and maintain your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
The strongest reason for the people
to retain the right to keep and bear arms is,
as a last resort, to protect themselves
against tyranny in government.
- Thomas Jefferson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is an interesting question how far men
would retain their relative rank
if they were divested of their clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is sanctuary in being alone with nature.
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Flowers are Nature's messengers -
reminders of an unspeakable beauty.
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He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
Trees are the earth's endless effort
to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Pay attention to rainbows, and snowflakes,
butterflies and the songs of birds,
the crash of storm-driven waves
and the mirror-surface of a quiet pond.
Let the depths of nature become a part of your innermost being.
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In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
The fog unrolls itself to be a prayer rug to the mountains.
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If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
- Zhuangzi
Joy in looking and comprehending
is nature's most beautiful gift.
- Albert Einstein
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners.
That is our permanent state.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask.
She has long ago taken her resolution.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nature is not human hearted.
- Lao Tzu
All my life through, the new sights
of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
- Marie Curie
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon
When nature has work to be done,
she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- John Muir
That sense of sacredness,
that thinking in generations,
must begin with reverence for this earth.
- Paul Tsongas
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing.
None is excluded, but excludes himself.
You have only to push aside the curtain.
- Henry David Thoreau
Water is the driving force of all nature.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
Nature and human life are as various
as our several constitutions.
Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
- Henry David Thoreau
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive
and potentially orderly and constructive.
- Margaret Mead
The primal rhythmic power
and resonant sound of waves on the shore
are like the earth's heartbeat,
and become our connection with the body of nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Keep close to Nature's heart...
and break clear away, once in awhile,
and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods.
Wash your spirit clean.
- John Muir
Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in,
where nature may heal and cheer
and give strength to the body and soul.
- John Muir
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed,
but nature does not depend on us.
We are not the only experiment.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are moments when all anxiety
and stated toil are becalmed
in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nature never breaks her own laws.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Nature will bear the closest inspection.
She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf,
and take an insect view of its plain.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it.
I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The goal of life is
to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature.
- Joseph Campbell
Nature hates calculators.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station,
through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
- George Washington Carver
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening
our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature and its beauty.
- Albert Einstein
Take a course in good water and air;
and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own.
Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
- John Muir
I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Study nature, love nature,
stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
What a book a devil's chaplain might write
on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low,
and horribly cruel work of nature!
- Charles Darwin
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
There are certain pursuits which,
if not wholly poetic and true,
do at least suggest a nobler and finer
relation to nature than we know.
The keeping of bees, for instance.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity;
so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
- Henry David Thoreau
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction
because of the variety of factors in operation,
not because of any lack of order in nature.
- Albert Einstein
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal
is our only legitimate hope of survival.
- Wendell Berry
Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth,
and that is that no instruction book came with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
- Thomas Jefferson
The unpredictable and irregular happenings
of life's cycles are an inherent part of their nature.
There are droughts and heat waves, injuries occur.
The lion eats the zebra -
one is nourished, one dies - neither failed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In wilderness is the preservation of the world.
- Henry David Thoreau
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