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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Dag Hammarskjold
Nature
You
Will
Top
See
Never
Reached
Until
How
Mountain
Low
Height
Then
Measure
The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.
Plautus
Day
Nature
Money
Water
Moon
Sun
Purchase
Things
Night
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
Arthur C. Clarke
Nature
Mercy
Laws
Judges
Human
Against
Show
Appeal
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
Denis Diderot
Nature
Knowledge
Result
Reflection
Three
Facts
Observation
Combination
Principal
Experimentation
Them
Acquiring
Means
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Best
Nature
Assurance
Our
Immortality
Perhaps
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
Emily Dickinson
Nature
Strange
Intrude
Knock
Does
How
Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.
Richard Rohr
Nature
Song
Singing
Never
Praise
Stops
Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be.
Sharon Salzberg
Nature
Crazy
Fruit
Karma
World
Law
Will
Live
Universe
Kind
Seed
Some
Laws
Arising
Accidental
Passing
According
Gets
Just
Happen
In-Laws
Which
Us
Certain
Teaches
Planted
Away
Things
Things Happen
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Thomas Browne
Art
God
Nature
All Things
Artificial
Things
Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
John Donne
Great
Nature
Harmless
Only
Great Thing
Masterpiece
Elephant
Thing
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
H. P. Lovecraft
Nature
Black
Ocean
White
Silent
Smooth
Green
Blue
Grey
Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.
Thomas Tusser
Nature
Spring
Sweet
April
May
Showers
Flowers
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
Alexander Hamilton
Nature
Rights
Old
Power
Human Nature
Sunbeam
Records
Sacred
Obscured
Never
Divinity
Volume
Written
Mortal
Erased
Hand
Itself
Human
Mankind
Whole
Among
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Nature
Suffering
Intelligence
Degree
Pain
Increased
Only
Point
Highest
Highest Degree
Supreme
Capacity
Shows
Growth
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
Benjamin Franklin
Happiness
Nature
Man
Happy
Money
Will
Made
Nothing
More
Never
Nor
Wants
Produce
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
George Washington Carver
God
Nature
Speak
Reading
Walks
Carefully
Books
Fine
About
More
Voice
He
Learn
Than
Person
Listens
Woods
Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.
Harrison Ford
Nature
Culture
People
Human Being
Would
Fine
Without
Go
Survive
Human
Just
Being
Human Beings
Cannot
Beings
Need
Extinction
Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
Laurence Sterne
Forgiveness
Nature
Coward
Only
Never
Know
How
His
Forgave
Brave
Forgive
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
Phillips Brooks
Nature
You
Yourself
Humble
Will
Be Humble
Way
Some
Higher
Smaller
True
Until
Real
True Way
Greatness
Than
Stoop
Against
Height
Stand
Your
Show
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
William Graham Sumner
Fitness
Nature
Ought
Dissolution
Gutter
Tendency
He
Drunkard
She
Him
According
Survived
Just
Where
Process
Which
Decline
Usefulness
Things
Set
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Khalil Gibran
Nature
Gardening
Long
Hair
Earth
Winds
Delights
Feel
Feet
Forget
Bare
Bare Feet
Your
Play
The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
William Wordsworth
Nature
Ocean
Mighty
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana
Love
Nature
Mind
Spring
Changing
State
Hopelessly
Than
Happier
Interested
Seasons
Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.
John Webster
Alone
Nature
Together
Fly
Crows
Commonly
Flock
Eagles
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
Alexander Hamilton
Nature
Rights
Old
Human Nature
Sunbeam
Records
Sacred
Never
Divinity
Volume
Written
Erased
Hand
Itself
Human
Mankind
Whole
Among
You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.
Alexander the Great
Nature
You
Nothing
Top
Valor
Way
Diligently
Out
High
Find
Hath
Seek
Shall
Reach
Industry
Question
Placed
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