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

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn’t happen.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

The Internet offers opportunities that are more unique than ever before. With TV, I know I’m making 22 minutes; I know there’s a commercial in the middle. With the Internet, no one knows anything. No rules.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.

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.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.

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

The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or indeed the world, not only in the size and beauty of the trees, but in the number of species assembled together, and the grandeur of the mountains they are growing on.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

Water’s never clumsy.

The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

What is a farm but a mute gospel?

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

On the whole, we think of our consumers – other judges, lawyers, the public. The law that the Supreme Court establishes is the law that they must live by, so all things considered, it’s better to have it clearer than confusing.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you’ll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

We’re one of the only animals in the world that don’t really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

Even Gaddafi’s adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.