Steep Steps

The obstacle is the path. - Zen Proverb

Nature and wisdom never are at strife. - Plutarch

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Treehouses are the ultimate return to nature. - Pete Nelson

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. - William Shakespeare

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. - Mark Twain

The only foolproof path to wealth is inheritance. - Tom and David Gardner

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. - Lao Tzu

Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down. - Unknown

Nothing really sets human nature free but self-control. - Paul Bottome

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

That most elusive organ that nature has ever yet created. - Stanley Baldwin

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. - Andre Gide

Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. - Francois Malet-Joris

I dreamed a thousand new paths... I woke and walked my old one. - Chinese Proverb

Nature seems to have implanted gratitude in all living creatures. - Samuel Johnson

Go often to the house of a friend, for weeds choke the unused path. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire

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

Followers will never know how hard the leader tries to create a path. - Unknown

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. - Joseph Addison

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha.' - Ernst Haas

Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations. - Stephen Covey

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

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. - Al Gore

It is not human nature that we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. - Denis Diderot

Judging a child taking his first steps for not being able to run a marathon is shortsighted. - Tyler Winklevoss

Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell. - Dag Hammarskjold

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and acitivty of man's nature. - Robert South

With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick. - Elizabeth Holmes

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. - John Muir

Children raced outside. She surveyed their trail - traces of sticky fingerprints across everything, like wee poems. - Dr. SunWolf

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path. - Paulo Coelho

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

Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you. - Catherine Anderson

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

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed. - Ram Dass

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

Determine what motivates you and you can find your path to love, happiness and influence and that which you seek to make your life complete. - Louis Howard