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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
Little do men perceive what solitude is,
and how far it extendeth.
For a crowd is not company,
and faces are but a gallery of pictures,
and talk but a tinkling cymbal,
where there is no love.
- Francis Bacon
Those that want friends to open themselves unto
are cannibals of their own hearts.
- Francis Bacon
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This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father;
to his wife, but as a husband;
to his enemy, but upon terms:
whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires,
and not as it sorteth with the person.
- Francis Bacon
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself.
You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough
to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment
comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command
and find that they control their own time,
when they learn their own voice and authority.
- Theodore H. White
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
Providence has its appointed hour for everything.
We cannot command results, we can only strive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
There is sanctuary in being alone with nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
Trees are the earth's endless effort
to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The fog unrolls itself to be a prayer rug to the mountains.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
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
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
Flowers are Nature's messengers -
reminders of an unspeakable beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Pause to appreciate the beauty around you.
Whether rainbow or butterfly,
mountain or tree, painting or poem -
whether crafted by nature or by a human hand -
beauty adds a magical element to life
that surpasses logic and science.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy,
if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you,
if the simple things in nature have a message you understand,
Rejoice, for your soul is alive.
- Eleanora Duse
Hold on... Joyfully.
Holding-on does not have to be
a desperate teeth-gritting kind of holding-on.
Holding-on can be a joyful
"this is just the nature of Life,
so I may as well enjoy it"
kind of holding-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature is not human hearted.
- Lao Tzu
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every blade of grass has an angel
that bends over it and whispers, "grow! grow!
- Talmud
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
Nature hates calculators.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 never breaks her own laws.
- Leonardo da Vinci
All my life through, the new sights
of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
- Marie Curie
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
- Zhuangzi
Thoughts come clearly while one walks.
- Thomas Mann
Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
- John Muir
Let us be silent, that we may
hear the whispers of the gods.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Water is the driving force of all nature.
- Leonardo da Vinci
When nature has work to be done,
she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being part of the natural world reminds me
that innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Joy in looking and comprehending
is nature's most beautiful gift.
- Albert Einstein
Study nature, love nature,
stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- John Muir
We see God face to face every hour,
and know the savor of Nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every creature is a word of God.
- Meister Eckhart
The mountains are calling and I must go.
- 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
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The environment is everything that isn't me.
- Albert Einstein
To the lover of wilderness,
Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
- John Muir
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature.
Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
- 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
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
- Mother Teresa
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
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