#nature

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#cannot #cheated #give #her #nature

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#believe #eloquent #hardly #learned #many

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income. ↗

— Dee Hock

#business #closest #closest thing #expense #form

To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature. ↗

— David Hockney

#especially #look #me #nature #rather

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#being #collect #collecting #eat #extravagance

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#chips #contrived #critics #her #invented

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back. ↗

— Horace

#constantly #drive #may #nature #out

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#change #conversation #knock #nine-tenths #once

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her. ↗

— William Morris Hunt

#her #imitate #mission #nature #represent

Because the quality of living with nature and allowing it to manifest itself is different than the quality of living in a city, especially a dense city. ↗

— Lawrence Halprin

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