New York Time Lapse

The poetry of earth is never dead. - John Keats

Nature abhors a vacuum. And so do I. - Anne Gibbons

A father is a banker provided by nature. - French Proverb

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

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

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

The earth has its music for those who will listen. - George Santayana

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

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. - August Rodin

Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines. - David Letterman

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

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. - John Le Carre

It is part of human nature to hate the man you have hurt. - Tacitus

I can see myself before myself - a being through dark scenery. - Dejan Stojanovic

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. - Anatole France

Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view. - Thomas á Kempis

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

A really well made buttonhole is the only link between art and nature. - Oscar Wilde

I know the guy who writes all those bumper stickers. He hates New York. - Steven Wright

I'm out there everyday amongst them, in the smelting pot of New York. - Archie Bunker

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

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

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

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

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

It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view. - Dalai Lama

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

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about. - Oscar Wilde

A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view. - Robert Frost

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour. - James H. Jeans

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. - Sophia Loren

Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see life with a clearer view again. - Alex Tan

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature. - Niels Bohr

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

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 is one of the most underutilized treasures in life. It has the power to unburden hearts and reconnect to that inner place of peace. - Janice Anderson

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man. - Maria G. Mayer

Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them. - Thomas Jefferson