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“Winter is dead; spring is crazy; summer is cheerful and autumn is wise!”

Nature Environment Wise Crazy Summer Spring Winter Autumn Cheerful Natural Environment

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden.”

Would Be Nature Memories Pleasure Wise Plans Garden Plant Smell Nostalgia Scent Being Wise Nostalgic

Book:The Gardening Year

Source: The Gardening Year

“Nature, being a wise and provident lady, governs her parts very wisely, methodically, and orderly: Also, she is very industrious and hates to be idle, which makes her employ her time as a good housewife doth.”

Hate Nature Wise Idle Housewife Orderly Industrious Very Wise

Author:Margaret Cavendish

“The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.”

Men Nature Common Wonder Wise Ignorance Ignorant Exceptional Regularity

Author:George Dana Boardman Pepper

“Nature is always wise in every part.”

Author:Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

“Nature never makes excellent things, for mean or no uses: and it is hardly to be conceived, that our infinitely wise Creator, should make so admirable a Faculty, as the power of Thinking, that Faculty which comes nearest the Excellency of his own incomprehensible Being, to be so idlely and uselesly employ'd, at least 1/4 part of its time here, as to think constantly, without remembering any of those Thoughts, without doing any good to it self or others, or being anyway useful to any other part of Creation.”

Thinking Should Mean Self Use Remember Science Understanding Nature Wise Creation Excellence Creator Excellent Faculty Admirable

Book:An essay concerning human understanding. Also extr. from the author's works, i. Analysis of mr. Locke's doctrine of ideas [&c.].

Source: An essay concerning human understanding. Also extr. from the author's works, i. Analysis of mr. Locke's doctrine of ideas [&c.].

“There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.”

Humans Nature Wise Human Nature Fool

Author:Francis Bacon

“There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.”

Needs Nature Wise Atheism There Is No God God Nature

Author:Marquis de Sade

“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.”

“Invisible threads are the strongest ties.”

Wisdom Nature Wise Clever Invisible Ties Strongest Thread Invisible Threads

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.”

Writing Wells Art Nature Wise Chiefs Masterpiece Writing Well

Author:Andre Breton

“A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable uncomplicated sun.”

Men Looks Turns Can Do Nature Church Sun Wise Tree Look Up Majesty Resignation Airy Unconquerable Uncomplicated

Author:Llewelyn Powys

“A wider of more altruistic attitude is very relevant in today's world. If we look at the situation from various angles, such as the complexity and inter-connectedness of the nature of modern existence, then we will gradually notice a change in our outlook, so that when we say 'others' and when we think of others, we will no longer dismiss them as something that is irrelevant to us. We will no longer feel indifferent.”

“Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.”

Wells Heart May Nature Environment Wise Pure Waste Desert Awake Plot Faculty Nature Beauty Vacant

Book:Letters, Conversations and Recollections

Source: Letters, Conversations and Recollections

“I would beg the wise and learned fathers (of the church) to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration. ... [I]t is not in the power of professors of the demonstrative sciences to alter their opinions at will, so as to be now of one way of thinking and now of another. ... [D]emonstrated conclusions about things in nature of the heavens, do not admit of being altered with the same ease as opinions to what is permissible or not, under a contract, mortgage, or bill of exchange.”

“In nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read.”

Littles I Can Book Science Nature Secret Wise Infinite Secrecy I Can Read

Author:William Shakespeare