Living On The Edge

Nature can do more than physicians. - Oliver Cromwell

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

Nature provides exceptions to every rule. - Margaret Fuller

Scenery is fine but human nature is finer. - John Keats

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

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

Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. - Billy Graham

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. - William Wordsworth

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

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. - Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Chocolate is nature's way of making up for Mondays. - Unknown

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

Mother is the home we come from. She is nature, soil, ocean. - Erich Fromm

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

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. - John Ruskin

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. - Francis Bacon

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

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

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration. - Pat Conroy

Study nature. Love nature. Stay close to nature. It will never fail you. - Frank Lloyd Wright

The first and fundamental law of nature is to seek out peace and follow it. - Thomas Hobbes

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. - Marie Curie

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher

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

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient, whilst Mother Nature takes care of the cure. - Voltaire

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself. - L Wolfe Gilbert

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

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature, but plunges him more deeply into them. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and acitivty of man's nature. - Robert South

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. - Alan Kay

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. - Gunter Grass

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. - George MacDonald

A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world. - Harvey Cushing

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. - Alice Walker

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

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Human psychology describes a bump on the bump. - Willard Quine

Advice from a tree:
- Stand tall and proud
- Go out on a limb
- Remember your roots
- Drink plenty of water
- Enjoy the view - Unknown