I’m crepuscular.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

I didn’t do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

Nature has always had more force than education.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought… The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

A lot of guys are able to separate how they act off the court versus how they act on the court.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Probably because I’m from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don’t get too excited with big things.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms… For example, I am made up of 5.8×10 27 atoms.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

Nature does nothing in vain.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don’t see what goes on underground – as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don’t see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

A creep is someone who claims he’s one thing but he’s actually another.

As the poet said, ‚Only God can make a tree,‘ probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.