Redneck's Open Range

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. - Michael Pollan

Few maxims are true from every point of view. - Marquis de Lac de Clapiers Vauvenargue

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. - William Shakespeare

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. - Mark Twain

A unicorn is just a horse with a point of view. - Ron Sexsmith

Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The earth has its music for those who will listen. - George Santayana

Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences. - Anna Held

Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. - John Le Carre

It is part of human nature to hate the man you have hurt. - Tacitus

Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business. - Dave Barry

I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man. - Toussaint Louverture

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. - John Muir

I can see myself before myself - a being through dark scenery. - Dejan Stojanovic

Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view. - Walter Murch

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!" - Robin Williams

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. - Dudley Moore

Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view. - Thomas á Kempis

Death is nature's way of saying, "Your table is ready." - Robin Williams

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. - John Burroughs

Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak. - Unknown

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. - Lewis Grizzard

Like all refugees, I am imprinted with the nature of loss and the necessity for reinvention. - Adrienne Clarkson

It is not human nature that we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. - Denis Diderot

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. - Rainer M. Rilke

A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view. - Robert Frost

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sayin' grace - it's just thankin' Mother Nature, whose 1st name just happens to be Grace. - Archie Bunker

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. - Charles Darwin

It is a brief period of life that is granted us by nature, but the memory of a well-spent life never dies. - Cicero

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. - Walt Disney

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. - Alexander Hamilton

Happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool. - John M. Good

You can only learn from the second-raters. The first-raters are out of range; you can't see how they get their effects. - Unknown

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. - Henry David Thoreau

When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened. - Criss Jami

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man. - Maria G. Mayer