Train Boat

There is no forgiveness in nature. - Ugo Betti

The mountains are calling and I must go. - John Muir

Scenery is fine but human nature is finer. - John Keats

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. - Gary Snyder

Time is given us to use in view of eternity. - Harry Ironside

Few maxims are true from every point of view. - Marquis de Lac de Clapiers Vauvenargue

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

The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature. - Antoine Francois Prevost

It is sweet to view the sea when standing on the shore. - Archippus

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God. - Euclid

In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous. - Aristotle

A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view. - Wilma Askinas

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. - Francis Bacon

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

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

Shells sink,
Dreams float,
Life's good
On our boat. - Jimmy Buffet

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. - Garrison Keillor

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. - Benjamin Franklin

Dreams come true; without that possibility nature would not incite us to have them. - John Updike

My folks didn't come over on the Mayflower but they were here to meet the boat. - Will Rogers

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

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

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

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

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. - Soren Kierkegaard

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

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

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

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' - W H Auden

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.' - Steven Wright

It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of. - David Foster Wallace

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

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. - George MacDonald

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. - John Muir

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

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. - Henry David Thoreau

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