Ticked Off Tree

Nature abhors a vacuum. And so do I. - Anne Gibbons

What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees? - Robin Williams

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

Clean your finger before you point at my spots. - Benjamin Franklin

The family is one of nature's masterpieces. - George Santayana

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. - Lao Tzu

Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down. - Unknown

Nothing really sets human nature free but self-control. - Paul Bottome

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. - Thomas Campbell

He knows his olive trees better than he knows his children. - Rebecca Helm-Ropelato

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

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

On the keyboard of life always keep one finger on the 'escape' key. - Unknown

Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees. - J.J. Furnas

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. - Robert Louis Stevenson

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

If my Valentine you won't be,
I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree. - Ernest Hemingway

It will never rain roses. When we want to have more roses, we must plant more trees. - George Eliot

Middle Age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. - Harold Coffin

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. - Joseph Addison

I still have my Christmas Tree. I looked at it today. Sure enough, I couldn't see any forests. - Steven Wright

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

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' - W H Auden

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

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. - Abraham Lincoln

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature. - Niels Bohr

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. - Oscar Wilde

It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of. - David Foster Wallace

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. - Joseph Addison

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

When nature is my inspiration and subject, I am witness to an extraordinary range of color and every imaginable atmospheric condition. - Karen Casey

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it was stupid. - Albert Einstein

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases. - Edward Jenner

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

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

Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them. - Thomas Jefferson

Love is like the wild-rose briar, friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? - Emily Bronte