Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.
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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.
Love is a river. Drink from it.
As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
The good man is the friend of all living things.
A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.
The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.
The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
a culture is no better than its woods
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
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