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1. "Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."

Ann Landers

2. "Like the sunflower, it is our nature to turn always toward the light."

Dorothy Mendoza Row

Quotations about: Human

3. "If there is no God, man is most unfortunate freak of nature. "

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Quotations about: God and Religion -:- Human

4. "Nature is the only murderer who is not convicted."

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Quotations about: Law and Crime

5. "Clear sky is bigger than the largest rain clouds."

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Quotations about: Optimism and Hope

6. "Sex is a trap set by nature to ensure the survival of our species."

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Quotations about: Human -:- Love

7. "Gray is a cover, which hides the colors."

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Quotations about: Various

8. "Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."

James Bryant Conant

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

9. "Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be."

William Hazlitt, "Lectures on the English Comic Writers"

Quotations about: Human

10. "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants."

A. Whitney Brown

Quotations about: Various

11. "If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man."

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Quotations about: Human -:- Life and Death

12. "Cats are meant to be loved, not to be understood."

Anon.

13. "A butterfly is a self-propelled flower."

Anon.

14. "A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle."

Ian Fleming

15. "God invented dogs to give cats something to laugh at!"

Anon.

16. "God made the country, and man made the town."

William Cowper

Quotations about: Various

17. "Who hears the fishes when they cry?"

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

18. "Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature."

Jacob Bronowski

Quotations about: Science and Technology

19. "Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave."

Thomas Browne, "Urn Burial"

Quotations about: Human

20. "Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Italian Journey"

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21. "A Camel is a horse designed by a committee."

Anon.

Quotations about: Various

22. "In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice."

Clive Staples Lewis, "God In The Dock"

Quotations about: Human -:- Good and Evil

23. "Spring is a true reconstructionist."

Henry Timrod

24. "The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it."

Carlo Goldoni, "Pamela"

Quotations about: Various

25. "Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock."

George Bernard Shaw, "Getting Married"

Quotations about: Human

26. "It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

Sir Edmund Hillary

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

27. "Experiments are mediators between nature and idea."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Sayings in Prose"

Quotations about: Science and Technology

28. "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of."

Ogden Nash

Quotations about: Various

29. "The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript."

Aleister Crowley, "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley"

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

30. "Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day."

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Quotations about: Various

31. "The darkest hour is just before the dawn."

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Quotations about: Various

32. "The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body."

Jean Baudrillard, "America"

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

33. "Nature is goodness crystallized."

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Quotations about: Good and Evil

34. "One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness, and three of sodomy."

Edward Dahlberg, "Alms for Oblivion"

35. "Life is a zoo in a jungle."

Peter De Vries

Quotations about: Life and Death

36. "Living with a dog is messy - like living with an idealist."

Henry Louis Mencken

37. "Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Art and Culture -:- Science and Technology

38. "Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well as art."

Henry David Thoreau

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

39. "The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years."

Oscar Hammerstein, from song "The Sound of Music"

Quotations about: Art and Culture

40. "Love all God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand of it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love."

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov"

Quotations about: Love

41. "I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts."

John Steinbeck

42. "This mortal air is one wide pestilence, that kills us all at last."

Herman Melville, "Mardi"

Quotations about: Life and Death

43. "Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home."

John Dewey, "Art as Experience"

44. "No matter how much you feed the wolf, he keeps looking at the forest."

Estonian proverb

45. "The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it."

Patrick Young

Quotations about: Trust

46. "I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am."

Thomas Carlyle

Quotations about: Science and Technology

47. "Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life."

John Updike, "Self?Consciousness: Memoirs"

48. "Art compares to nature like wine to the grape."

Franz Grillparzer, "Notebooks and Diaries"

Quotations about: Art and Culture

49. "A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true."

Ray Evans, "To Each His Own"

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

50. "Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature."

Gérard De Nerval

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

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