Redneck's Open Range

Colors are the smiles of nature. - Leigh Hunt

Nature abhors a vacuum. And so do I. - Anne Gibbons

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

Nature creates nothing without a purpose. - Aristotle

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

It is a human nature to think wisely and act foolishly. - Anatole France

I always have an optimistic view, no matter what it is. - Stephen Curry

Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. - Yoko Ono

If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. - Laura I Wilder

Mother is the home we come from. She is nature, soil, ocean. - Erich Fromm

Being on the edge isn't as safe, but the view is better. - Ricky Gervais

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

When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery. - Neil Diamond

If anybody starts using me as scenery, I'll return to New York. - Grace Kelly

Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist. - Austin O'Malley

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. - Marcus Aurelius

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? - Charles Baudelaire

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

Study nature. Love nature. Stay close to nature. It will never fail you. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. - Thornton Wilder

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher

Like all refugees, I am imprinted with the nature of loss and the necessity for reinvention. - Adrienne Clarkson

Like a great poet, nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means. - Heinrich Heine

Art is the right hand of nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. - Friedrich Schiller

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour. - James H. Jeans

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself. - L Wolfe Gilbert

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. - Charles Darwin

It is a brief period of life that is granted us by nature, but the memory of a well-spent life never dies. - Cicero

Happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool. - John M. Good

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. - Alan Kay

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire. - Aristotle

You can only learn from the second-raters. The first-raters are out of range; you can't see how they get their effects. - Unknown

Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee. - Martin H. Fischer

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. - George Washington Carver

The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional. - Hugo L Black

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. - Alice Walker

Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them. - Thomas Jefferson