Living On The Edge

I view art as an inspirational tool. - Thomas Kincade

Nature and wisdom never are at strife. - Plutarch

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. - Michael Pollan

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. - Gary Snyder

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business. - Dave Barry

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

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

Drive slow and enjoy the scenery. Drive fast and join the scenery. - Douglas Horton

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

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

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

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

In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery. - Mahatma Gandhi

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

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire

Like all refugees, I am imprinted with the nature of loss and the necessity for reinvention. - Adrienne Clarkson

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. - Alexander Hamilton

New Zealand was one of the most beautiful countries to drive through for the scenery and the vast scale of the place. - Louise Nurding

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

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

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire. - Aristotle

Each patient ought to feel somewhat the better after the physician's visit, irrespective of the nature of the illness. - Warfield Theobald Longcope

Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee. - Martin H. Fischer

And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the face of a noble object. - Robertson Davies

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

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

When you are called to a sick man, be sure you know what the matter is — if you do not know, nature can do a great deal better than you can guess. - Nicholas de Belleville