Steep Steps

Adversity is the first path to truth. - Lord Byron

Nature and wisdom never are at strife. - Plutarch

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

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

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

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? - Henry Ward Beecher

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

Hiking and happiness go hand in hand (or foot in boot). - Diane Spicer

I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man. - Toussaint Louverture

Mother is the home we come from. She is nature, soil, ocean. - Erich Fromm

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

I love hiking, paddle boarding and listening to the Veronicas. - Bindi Irwin

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

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy. - Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. - Walter Bagehot

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. - William James

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

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

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. - Frank A. Clark

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will. - George Lucas

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient, whilst Mother Nature takes care of the cure. - Voltaire

We will walk the path not of retribution or revenge but the path of reconciliation and forgiveness. - Mahatma Gandhi

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

It is a brief period of life that is granted us by nature, but the memory of a well-spent life never dies. - Cicero

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

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

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

It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

When you say justice, it doesn't have to be war. Justice could just be clearing a path for people to dream properly. - Kanye West

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

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need. - Sara Teasdale

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

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Human psychology describes a bump on the bump. - Willard Quine

To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest. - Joe-kster