The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind no elements it can bend and withstand anything.

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things namely not to follow it but to amend it.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them he opens the way for his successors.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct everything in nature is coloured.

The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand rejoice for your soul is alive.

There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.

The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there so the underlying nature of being is weird.

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood bones and hair.

The fairest thing in nature a flower still has its roots in earth and manure.

Those things that nature denied to human sight she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

Look when you're the president there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean it's just the nature of the job.

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest most unpredictable and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity love brotherhood and relationships that I never understood and probably never would have. So from that standpoint there is some truth and good in everything.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry cannot have much respect for himself or for anything else.

You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

I think that if people are instructed about anything it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost and a price to be paid.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature whether sacred or profane out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.