Living On The Edge

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

Treehouses are the ultimate return to nature. - Pete Nelson

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view. - Walter Murch

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

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

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

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

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

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

I not only think we tamper with Mother Nature, I think that Mother Nature wants us to. - Willard Gatlin

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

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 function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. - Soren Kierkegaard

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

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. - Thomas Paine

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

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' - W H Auden

The key to a better life isn't always a change of scenery. Sometimes it simply requires opening your eyes. - Richelle E. Goodrich

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

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

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

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

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. - Gunter Grass

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

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. - John Muir

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

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. - George Washington Carver

The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional. - Hugo L Black

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

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. - Joseph Addison

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