Three Sisters

Nature and wisdom never are at strife. - Plutarch

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

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

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

Nature provides exceptions to every rule. - Margaret Fuller

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

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? - Henry Ward Beecher

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

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. - August Rodin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery. - Neil Diamond

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire

Nature never makes any blunders. When she makes a fool she means it. - Archibald Alexander

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire. - Aristotle

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

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

Nature is one of the most underutilized treasures in life. It has the power to unburden hearts and reconnect to that inner place of peace. - Janice Anderson

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

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

When you are called to a sick man, be sure you know what the matter is — if you do not know, nature can do a great deal better than you can guess. - Nicholas de Belleville