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“God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.”— Marcus Garvey
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“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.”— Mother Teresa
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“Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it to work around it.”— Donna Leon
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“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”— E. E. Cummings
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“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”— Henri Matisse
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“Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.”— May Sarton
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“I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.”— Walt Disney
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“It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.”— Elvis Presley
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“Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.”— Yoko Ono
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“The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.”— Alfred Austin
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“Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'”— Robin Williams
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“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”— Jane Austen
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“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.”— George Santayana
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“To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.”— George Santayana
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“While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.”— Larry Bird
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“Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.”— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”— Anais Nin
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“There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.”— Alfred Austin
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“I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!”— Zac Efron
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“As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.”— Albrecht Durer
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“There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.”— Joseph Addison
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“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”— Langston Hughes
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“We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.”— William Hazlitt
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“Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”— Hans Christian Anderson
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“The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.”— William Hazlitt