Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

In Reykjavik, Iceland, where I was born, you are in the middle of nature surrounded by mountains and ocean. But you are still in a capital in Europe. So I have never understood why I have to choose between nature or urban.

The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to occupy, and then appeal to the best nature of people on that common ground.

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

I love all of the ecosystems - mountains, deserts, rainforests. They're beautiful, and nature has so many different flavors to it.

I keep returning to the combination of artichoke, broad beans and lemon. The freshness of young beans and the lemon juice 'lifts' the artichoke and balances its hearty nature.

All nature wears one universal grin.

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

Authenticity is the ability to listen to what nature tells us. Listening isn't the same thing as never making a mistake, but the important thing is to learn.

We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.

My favorite parts about 'The Battle of Five Armies' were the moments where you could clearly see that we were looking at New Zealand. That it wasn't done in post, it wasn't CGI, it was the beautiful, incredible creation of Mother Nature in all of her splendor.

The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation.

Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.

I have a lot of love for nature, trees, animals and greenery, and I feel that if I did not exist, there'd be no greenery on the face of the earth.

The stars that have most glory have no rest.

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

Management did not emanate from nature. Management is not a tree: it's a television set. Somebody invented it. It doesn't mean it's going to work forever. Management is great. Traditional notions of management are great if you want compliance. But if you want engagement, self-direction works better.

All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

You make a decision whether you just work on the script and believe in every moment and pick out every moment, or if you sit down and memorize lines. Once you really dig into a script, learning lines becomes almost second nature.

Nature is neutral.

The view of Earth is spectacular.

The ideas which led to the Analytical Engine occurred in a manner wholly independent of any that were connected with the Difference Engine. These ideas are indeed, in their own intrinsic nature, independent of the latter engine and might equally have occurred had it never existed nor even been thought of at all.

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Playing a bad guy would be fun, I'm not going to lie. I'd definitely do that in a heartbeat, because it's so out of my nature.

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

The groves were God's first temples.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.

The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.

Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

When I'm sick of myself, and when I don't know what to say as a solo artist, I can write a song for a movie. When I don't know where to turn musically, being in a band - Rilo Kiley or Jenny & Johnny - the collaborative nature is really exciting.

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.