Nature
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Man is by nature a political animal.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
If nature offers no home, then we must make a home one way or another. The only question is how.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Scenery is fine — but human nature is finer.
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
As attractive as it is, the idea that nature can exist beyond our dangerous 'instinct for happiness' is never the whole story.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature's forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.
I am big into water sports and just being out on the water. That is second nature to me, being from Florida.
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
Having been in the restaurant business, our job in the restaurant business is to be responsible for our customers' happiness. It's the nature of the hospitality business. You need to take care of people. You take care of customers above all others. Customers are your lifeblood.
Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.
My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.
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