Monongahela River

What a beautiful view! - Alan Shepard

Wisdom requires the long view. - John F. Kennedy

Colors are the smiles of nature. - Leigh Hunt

The mountains are calling and I must go. - John Muir

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

Nature creates nothing without a purpose. - Aristotle

Communism is in conflict with human nature. - Ernest Renan

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

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

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. - William Wordsworth

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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy. - Isaac Newton

Being on the edge isn't as safe, but the view is better. - Ricky Gervais

Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. - Francois Malet-Joris

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth. - Cicero

Death is nature's way of saying, "Your table is ready." - Robin Williams

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? - Charles Baudelaire

An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery. - Walter Winchell

Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations. - Stephen Covey

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. - John Burroughs

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. - D H Lawrence

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

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

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

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself. - L Wolfe Gilbert

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

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

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

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

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

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. - Joseph Addison

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

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. - George MacDonald

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

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

Miracle: An act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king. - Ambrose Bierce

Advice from a tree:
- Stand tall and proud
- Go out on a limb
- Remember your roots
- Drink plenty of water
- Enjoy the view - Unknown