Close Ups

What a beautiful view! - Alan Shepard

I am at two with nature. - Woody Allen

Wisdom requires the long view. - John F. Kennedy

Nature is cheaper than therapy. - M P Zarrella

I view art as an inspirational tool. - Thomas Kincade

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

Nature provides exceptions to every rule. - Margaret Fuller

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. - Michael Pollan

Treehouses are the ultimate return to nature. - Pete Nelson

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

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

Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear. - Marcus Aurelius

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

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

The first and fundamental law of nature is to seek out peace and follow it. - Thomas Hobbes

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

Your food is close to your stomach, but you must put it in your mouth first. - African Saying

Making mistakes reveals human nature. How one deals with them reveals character. - Unknown

Beauty is the first present nature gives to a woman and the first it takes away. - Fay Weldon

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

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you. - Alex Trebek

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. - Eleanor Roosevelt

A woman's heart should be so close to God that a man should have to chase Him to find her. - C S Lewis

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

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

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

Menopause: because nature decided that pregnancy, labor, delivery, breastfeeding, and stretch marks wasn't enough. - Unknown

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

Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature. - Steve Maraboli

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

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

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

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

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

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