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    Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

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Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and read more

Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

by Luther Burbank Found in: Nature Quotes,
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

by William Cowper Found in: Nature Quotes,
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He got a corporation mind. He doesn't believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man.

He got a corporation mind. He doesn't believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man.

by Norman Mailer Found in: Nature Quotes,
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

by Matsuo Basho Found in: Nature Quotes,
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Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.

Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.

by Nicolaus Copernicus Found in: Nature Quotes,
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That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should read more

That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.

by Lydia M. Child Found in: Nature Quotes,
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Not without art, but yet to Nature true.

Not without art, but yet to Nature true.

by Charles Churchill Found in: Nature Quotes,
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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

by Rose Kennedy Found in: Nature Quotes,
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Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak

Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak

by Epictetus Found in: Nature Quotes,
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