Scenic View

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

Nature to be commanded must be obeyed. - Francis Bacon

A father is a banker provided by nature. - French Proverb

Nature provides exceptions to every rule. - Margaret Fuller

Nature creates nothing without a purpose. - Aristotle

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

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

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

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

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

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory. - Julius Caesar

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

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God. - Euclid

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

Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things. - Epictetus

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

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

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once. - Woody Allen

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? - Charles Baudelaire

Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations. - Stephen Covey

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. - Unknown

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

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

Mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. - Benjamin Franklin

I not only think we tamper with Mother Nature, I think that Mother Nature wants us to. - Willard Gatlin

There are other ways of recognizing the existence of God, through nature for instance. - Billy Graham

It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view. - Dalai Lama

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

Art is the right hand of nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. - Friedrich Schiller

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

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

The key to a better life isn't always a change of scenery. Sometimes it simply requires opening your eyes. - Richelle E. Goodrich

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

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

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. - Margaret Atwood

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

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

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

Miracle: An act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king. - Ambrose Bierce