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“I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.”

Thinking Nature Garden Weed Marijuana Gardening Pulling Gardener Gardening And God Pulling Weeds

Author:Martha Smith

“A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure men who have only remained obscure because their timidity has prevented them from making a first effort; and who, if they could only have been induced to begin, would in all probability have gone great lengths in the career of fame.”

“Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.”

Nature Change Historical Catastrophe Headings Swagger Swag

Author:Susan Sontag

“The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.”

Thinking Humans Government Form Nature Existence Human Nature Type Republican Highest Republic Forms Of Government

Author:Herbert Spencer

“Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.”

Reason Nature Environment Philosophical Contrary Absurd Natural Environment

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.”

Wells War Beautiful Order Nature Imagination Beauty Human Nature Relation Ugly Confusion Confused Attributes Confusing Ugliness Deformity

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.”

Happiness Grows Nature Sweet Goodness Remembrance Good Service

Author:Madame de Stael

“I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.”

Real Light Courses Nature Realizing Tree Roots Plant Branches Stem Magician Bark Foliage Plants And Life

Book:A Life in Photography

Source: A Life in Photography

“It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.”

Men Literature Nature Loses Fishes Conviction Fishing

Author:John Steinbeck

“Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!”

Nature Poor Spring Surprise Dear Silly Preparing April Springtime Annuals Spring Poems April And Spring Spring Season Think Spring Spring Inspirational Welcome Spring

Book:Letters of Wallace Stevens

Source: Letters of Wallace Stevens

“We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.”

“Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.”

Humans Nature Survival Species Including Indifferent Human Species

Author:Adlai E. 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.”

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

“It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.”

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

“You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?”

Life Helping Motivational Success Choices Term Nature Business Environment Products Habit Discipline Environmental Objectives

Author:W. Clement Stone

“We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.”

Nature Car Wall Climate Change Arguing Giants Bricks Our Environment Headings Brick Wall People Stupidity

Author:David Suzuki

“To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.”

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”

Source: The Portable William Blake

“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”

Source: Collected Poems

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”

“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.”

Shows Purpose Names Nature Conditions Needed Concepts Evidence Illness Obvious Mental Illness Obscure

Book:Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary

Source: Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary

“Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.”

“Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”

Source: Poems

“I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.”

People Thinking Feels Humans Nature Consciousness Connections Isolated Human Consciousness

Author:James Taylor

“For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.”

Mind Stills Nature Environment Dawn Peace Of Mind Finest Disturbed Natural Environment Early Morning Naturalist Breaking Dawn

Book:Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year

Source: Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year

“The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.”

Humor Funny Nature Differences Beauty Plus Telephones Spiders Wire Utility Spider Web

Book:Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year

Source: Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year

“Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.”

Life Children Beautiful Faces Nature Healing Wonder Fire Blue Sells Wave Cups Soar Splendid Cliffs Beautiful Life Loveliness Looking For Love

Book:Love Songs

Source: Love Songs

“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.”

Soul Nature Half

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.”

“Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.”

Evil Nature Shame

Author:Tertullian

“Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.”

Inspirational Reality Today Nature Scientist Relation Mathematics Structure Experiments Wander Mathematical Equations Risk Management Mathematics And Science Science Physics Mathematical Equations

Author:Nikola Tesla

“The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.”

Mean Doe Sometimes Science Nature Stage Tasks Mastery Comprehension

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.”

Thinking Facts Lying Choices Force Nature Gay Lgbt Homosexuality

Author:Marlo Thomas

“Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.”

Thinking Humans Ideas Nature Human Beings Ability Events Intellect Isolated Accustomed

Author:Edward Thorndike

“If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.”

“The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.”

People World Persons Purpose Fun Nature Comedy Wit Revealing True Nature Humorists Satirist

Author:James Thurber

“I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.”

I Can Nature Not Sure Charm Jack Kennedy

Author:Gene Tierney

“We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.”

Moving Speak Voice Nature Tree Sea Clouds Wave Natural Environment Murmuring

Author:Paul Tillich

“If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.”

Ifs Mother Fear Nature Awe Mother Nature

Author:Alex Trebek

“The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.”

Men May Whole Humanity Force Nature Consciousness Taken Evolution Victory Blind Historic Succession Ascent Evolution Of Man

Book:The History of the Russian Revolution

Source: The History of the Russian Revolution

“However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.”

Nature Answers Doors

Book:Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)

“I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.”

Inspirational Doe Nature Leadership Leader Vacuums Default Leadership By Famous Leaders Future Leaders

Author:Desmond Tutu

“If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.”

Ifs Way Inspiration Nature Animal Learning Cat Experience Curiosity Pet Tails

Author:Mark Twain

“It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.”

Source: Mark Twain’s Book of Animals

“We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.”

Important Facts Universe Nature Atoms Night Sky Astrophysics

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.”

Fighting Nature Survival Exploits

Author:Mo Udall

“Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.”

Source: 1976: Agenda for Tomorrow

“Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.”

“Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.”

Nature Tasks Remakes Rediscovery

Book:Situationism: A Compendium

Source: Situationism: A Compendium

“The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.”

Firsts Nature Delicate Fierce Severe Crude Benign

Book:The New Science of Giambattista Vico

Source: The New Science of Giambattista Vico