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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
Herman Melville
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
Henry David Thoreau
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Woody Allen
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Adam Smith
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
Albert Schweitzer
Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.
Marshall McLuhan
Every corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to be true.
Susan Orlean
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
Alexander Pope
Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.
Lewis Thomas
Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
Xun Zi
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard Shaw
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Friedrich Nietzsche
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
Marcus Aurelius
It is not light that we need, but fire it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
Frederick Douglass
I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.
Georg Cantor
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
Anatole France
Make religion attractive, make good men wish it were true, and then show that it is. Worthy of reverence because it really understands human nature. Attractive because it promises true good.
Blaise Pascal
By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect
