Redneck's Open Range

The best armor is to keep out of range. - Italian Proverb

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. - Michael Pollan

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. - William Shakespeare

He loves nature in spite of what it did to him. - Forrest Tucker

Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The earth has its music for those who will listen. - George Santayana

The most beautiful view is the one I share with you. - Unknown

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. - Lao Tzu

Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences. - Anna Held

Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down. - Unknown

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. - John Muir

Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. - Francois Malet-Joris

I can see myself before myself - a being through dark scenery. - Dejan Stojanovic

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. - John Ruskin

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. - Dudley Moore

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. - Sir Peter Ustinov

Death is nature's way of saying, "Your table is ready." - Robin Williams

I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time. - Steven Wright

An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery. - Walter Winchell

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature but beautiful old people are works of art. - Unknown

It is not human nature that we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. - Denis Diderot

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. - Jacques Lipchitz

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about. - Oscar Wilde

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. - Rainer M. Rilke

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. - Thomas Paine

The key to a better life isn't always a change of scenery. Sometimes it simply requires opening your eyes. - Richelle E. Goodrich

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. - Walt Disney

Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues. - Lene Hau

New Zealand was one of the most beautiful countries to drive through for the scenery and the vast scale of the place. - Louise Nurding

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature. - Niels Bohr

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. - Joseph Addison

A convention is a splendid place to study human nature. Man in a crowd is quite a different creature than man acting alone. - William Jennings Bryan

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat. - Plato

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases. - Edward Jenner

Nature is one of the most underutilized treasures in life. It has the power to unburden hearts and reconnect to that inner place of peace. - Janice Anderson

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. - Joseph Addison

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man. - Maria G. Mayer

Today was about chasing sun-rays, beach waves, and sunsets. All things beautiful that give you peace are worth chasing. Everything else isn't. - April M. Monterrosa

Advice from a tree:
- Stand tall and proud
- Go out on a limb
- Remember your roots
- Drink plenty of water
- Enjoy the view - Unknown