Scenic View

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

Nature and wisdom never are at strife. - Plutarch

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

Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences. - Anna Held

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

Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

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

Nature never makes any blunders. When she makes a fool she means it. - Archibald Alexander

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once. - Woody Allen

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

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

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto. - Phyllis Diller

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

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

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. - Lewis Grizzard

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

Menopause: because nature decided that pregnancy, labor, delivery, breastfeeding, and stretch marks wasn't enough. - Unknown

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

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

A convention is a splendid place to study human nature. Man in a crowd is quite a different creature than man acting alone. - William Jennings Bryan

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

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

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

When nature is my inspiration and subject, I am witness to an extraordinary range of color and every imaginable atmospheric condition. - Karen Casey

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

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