Lightning or Darkening Rod?

There is no forgiveness in nature. - Ugo Betti

Communism is in conflict with human nature. - Ernest Renan

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

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. - William Wordsworth

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose. - Cyril Connolly

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

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them. - Epictetus

Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely gray. - Irv Kupcinet

Justice is a law of nature rarely found in human affairs. - Unknown

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

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

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

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

Drive slow and enjoy the scenery. Drive fast and join the scenery. - Douglas Horton

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

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

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. - Marie Curie

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

Only the brace know how to forgive. A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature. - Laurence Sterne

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

There are other ways of recognizing the existence of God, through nature for instance. - Billy Graham

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. - Thomas Carlyle

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. - Ingrid Bergman

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

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

A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view. - Robert Frost

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

Sayin' grace - it's just thankin' Mother Nature, whose 1st name just happens to be Grace. - Archie Bunker

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. - Bill Bryson

I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else. - Alan Ladd

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. - Hannah Arendt

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

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

Each patient ought to feel somewhat the better after the physician's visit, irrespective of the nature of the illness. - Warfield Theobald Longcope

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

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. - Paracelsus

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

Miracle: An act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king. - Ambrose Bierce