Lightning or Darkening Rod?

What a beautiful view! - Alan Shepard

Nature is cheaper than therapy. - M P Zarrella

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. - Michael Pollan

A unicorn is just a horse with a point of view. - Ron Sexsmith

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. - Henry David Thoreau

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph. - Ken Kesey

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy. - Isaac Newton

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. - Anatole France

Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view. - Thomas á Kempis

Static: Nature's way of protecting us from certain radio programs - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once. - Woody Allen

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. - John Steinbeck

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto. - Phyllis Diller

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. - D H Lawrence

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

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. - Lewis Grizzard

I not only think we tamper with Mother Nature, I think that Mother Nature wants us to. - Willard Gatlin

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

He that has no fools, knaves, nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning. - Thomas Fuller

It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view. - Dalai Lama

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

Nut Bar: someone who has a polar opposite world view which is contrary to your own biased opinions - Debbie Milne

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

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

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature, but plunges him more deeply into them. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I've come to view Jesus much the way I view Elvis. I love the guy but the fan clubs really freak me out. - John Fugelsang

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

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

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. - Margaret Atwood

Men became scientific because they expected law in nature and they expected law in nature because they believed in a lawgiver. - Ravi Zacharias

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

A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world. - Harvey Cushing

When nature is my inspiration and subject, I am witness to an extraordinary range of color and every imaginable atmospheric condition. - Karen Casey

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery - air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, 'This is what it is to be happy.' - Sylvia Plath

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

When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened. - Criss Jami

The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people. - Thomas Guthrie

It's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear. - Truman Capote

When you are called to a sick man, be sure you know what the matter is — if you do not know, nature can do a great deal better than you can guess. - Nicholas de Belleville