#nature

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#boulder #bush #deep #dig #gentle

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#being #former #given #hand #latter

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity! ↗

— George A. Smith

#does #find #himself #his #man

The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#ground #his #human #human nature #must

In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be. ↗

— Huston Smith

#nature #ought #rather #than

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#am #charged #doing #fault #frailty

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

#get #i #ideas #majesty #nature

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

#ease #gratitude #imperfect #least #lighten

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#before #could #forced #found #i

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing. ↗

— Ben Stein

#animal #basic #being #breathing #eating