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NATURE: The manuscript of nature is the true scripture. (Unknown Source)
NATURE: In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. (Unknown Source)
NATURE: Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)
NATURE: Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)
NATURE: In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. (Robert Green Ingersoll, U.S. lawyer and orator, 1833-1899)
NATURE: Pick a flower on earth and you move the farthest star. (Paul Dirac, English theoretical physicist, 1902-1984)
NATURE: Nature is not human-hearted. (Lao Tzu, ancient Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604-531 B.C.E.)
NATURE: After a debauch of thundershower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow. (Thomas Bailey Aldrich, U.S. writer, poet, critic, and long-term editor of The Atlantic Monthly, 1836-1907)
NATURE: The unnatural - that too is natural. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher, 1749-1832)
NATURE: In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences. (Roger G. Ingersoll, U.S. writer and orator in defense of agnosticism, 1833-1899)
NATURE: We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. (Francis Bacon, British essayist, philosopher, scientist, and statesman 1561-1626)
NATURE: The soil, in return for her service, keeps the tree tied to her; the sky asks nothing and leaves it free. (Rabindranath Tagore, a learned Bengali who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art, 1861-1941)
NATURE: Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal. (Brian Ingalls)
NATURE: When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. (Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)
NATURE: When a man wantonly destroys a work of man we call him a vandal; when a man destroys one of the works of God, we call him a sportsman. (Joseph Wood Krutch, writer, critic, and naturalist, 1893-1970)
NATURE: I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. (Walt Whitman, U.S. essayist, journalist,and poet, known as the Father of Free Verse, 1819-1992)
NATURE: If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn. (Bernie S. Siegel, U.S. writer and retired pediatric surgeon, Born 1932)
NATURE: Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure. (Patch Adams, U.S. physician, comedian, activist, and author, Born 1945)
NATURE: Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. (Richard Feynman, U.S. theoretical physicist, 1918-1988)
NATURE: The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)
NATURE: The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)
NATURE: Earth laughs in flowers. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)
NATURE: Everything in nature acts in conformity with law. (Immanuel Kant, German philosopher views continue to have a major influence on contemporary philosophy, 1724-1804)