Redneck's Open Range

Nature and wisdom never are at strife. - Plutarch

The view only changes for the lead dog. - Norman O. Brown

The mountains are calling and I must go. - John Muir

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Nature provides exceptions to every rule. - Margaret Fuller

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. - Gary Snyder

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

It is a human nature to think wisely and act foolishly. - Anatole France

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

That most elusive organ that nature has ever yet created. - Stanley Baldwin

Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. - Francois Malet-Joris

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. - Sir Peter Ustinov

If anybody starts using me as scenery, I'll return to New York. - Grace Kelly

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

I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time. - Steven Wright

A really well made buttonhole is the only link between art and nature. - Oscar Wilde

An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery. - Walter Winchell

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

Making mistakes reveals human nature. How one deals with them reveals character. - Unknown

Dreams come true; without that possibility nature would not incite us to have them. - John Updike

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. - Ingrid Bergman

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. - Jacques Lipchitz

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about. - Oscar Wilde

A statistician can have his head in the oven and his feet in ice, and on average he feels fine. - Unknown

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

I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else. - Alan Ladd

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

Let's be frank, the Italians' technological contribution to humankind stopped with the pizza oven. - Bill Bryson

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

New Zealand was one of the most beautiful countries to drive through for the scenery and the vast scale of the place. - Louise Nurding

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

Each patient ought to feel somewhat the better after the physician's visit, irrespective of the nature of the illness. - Warfield Theobald Longcope

A convention is a splendid place to study human nature. Man in a crowd is quite a different creature than man acting alone. - William Jennings Bryan

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. - John Muir

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat. - Plato

The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional. - Hugo L Black

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense. - Joseph Addison

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. - Joseph Addison