"Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing."

"It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely."

"Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned."

"I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination."

"There is no law for farm labor organizing, save the law of the jungle."

"It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with abundance have nothing left for themselves."

"The love for justice that is in us is not only the best part of our being but it is also the most true to our nature."

"Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!"

"On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting."

"Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay."

"Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities."

"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."

"It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us."

"We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind."

"The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man."

"There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves."

"Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself --my disgust at her barbarity --clumsiness --darkness --bitter mockery of herself --is the most desolating."

"But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing."

"We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in."

"Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact."

".. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the 'Momentary' masters of a 'Fraction' of a 'Dot'"

"Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil."

"But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine."

"Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars."