Close Ups

Colors are the smiles of nature. - Leigh Hunt

The poetry of earth is never dead. - John Keats

Nature can do more than physicians. - Oliver Cromwell

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. - Gerard De Nuewal

Disease is the retribution of outraged nature. - Hosea Ballou

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

The power which resides in him is new in nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory. - Julius Caesar

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

You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses. - Edwin L Cole

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

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

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

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth. - Cicero

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

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

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

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences. - Robert G Ingersoll

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people. - Carrot Top

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

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

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. - Augustine

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

Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. - Sydney Smith

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. - Blaise Pascal

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

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

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. - Plato

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

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

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense. - Joseph Addison