When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. – James Whitcomb Riley
Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me – I am happy. – Hamlin Garland
We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways. – Clarence Day
I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree. – Joyce Kilmer
My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. – Hamlin Garland
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. – Albert Einstein
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature. – Albert Einstein
A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. – William Shakespeare
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. – Mahatma Gandhi
Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature. – Marilyn Monroe
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. – Aristotle
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. – C. S. Lewis
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time. – William Shakespeare
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. – John Adams
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature hates calculators. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it? – Ralph Waldo Emerson
