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Laws are sand, customs are rock.
Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped,
but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
The penalty may be unfair, unrighteous, illogical, and a cruelty;
no matter, it will be inflicted, just the same.
Certainly, then, there can be but one wise thing
for a visiting stranger to do -
find out what the country's customs are,
and refrain from offending against them.
- Mark Twain
You cannot escape the responsibility
of tomorrow by evading it today.
- Abraham Lincoln
When ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
- Anais Nin
Resenting someone, or hating someone, ensures that
you can never emotionally escape that person.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass
If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
It is more dangerous that even
a guilty person should be punished
without the forms of law
than that he should escape.
- Thomas Jefferson
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things
which escape those who dream only by night.
- Edgar Allen Poe
Urgency is a grim taskmaster.
Escape time, and life becomes irie.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
("Irie" is a Jamaican word for being at total peace
with your current state of being.)
Reality doesn't impress me.
I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy,
and when ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another.
No more walls.
- Anais Nin
I am in a beautiful prison from which
I can only escape by writing.
- Anais Nin
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning,
as if supported by the rays of the sun,
a bird settled on the fire escape,
joy in the task of coffee,
joy accompanied me as I walked.
- Anais Nin
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity;
so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
- Henry David Thoreau
The willow which bends to the tempest,
often escapes better than the oak which resists it;
and so in great calamities,
it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits
recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner
than those of a loftier character.
- Albert Schweitzer
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Flowers are Nature's messengers -
reminders of an unspeakable beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is sanctuary in being alone with nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
Trees are the earth's endless effort
to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
The fog unrolls itself to be a prayer rug to the mountains.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
Pay attention to rainbows, and snowflakes,
butterflies and the songs of birds,
the crash of storm-driven waves
and the mirror-surface of a quiet pond.
Let the depths of nature become a part of your innermost being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask.
She has long ago taken her resolution.
- Henry David Thoreau
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
What a book a devil's chaplain might write
on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low,
and horribly cruel work of nature!
- Charles Darwin
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every true love song, by its very nature, is a duet.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Joy in looking and comprehending
is nature's most beautiful gift.
- Albert Einstein
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
Keep close to Nature's heart...
and break clear away, once in awhile,
and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods.
Wash your spirit clean.
- John Muir
The primal rhythmic power
and resonant sound of waves on the shore
are like the earth's heartbeat,
and become our connection with the body of nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction
because of the variety of factors in operation,
not because of any lack of order in nature.
- Albert Einstein
Nature never breaks her own laws.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Nature is not human hearted.
- Lao Tzu
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
All my life through, the new sights
of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
- Marie Curie
There are certain pursuits which,
if not wholly poetic and true,
do at least suggest a nobler and finer
relation to nature than we know.
The keeping of bees, for instance.
- Henry David Thoreau
Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening
our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature and its beauty.
- Albert Einstein
Water is the driving force of all nature.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Nature and human life are as various
as our several constitutions.
Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
- Henry David Thoreau
Nature hates calculators.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it.
I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in,
where nature may heal and cheer
and give strength to the body and soul.
- John Muir
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- John Muir
Take a course in good water and air;
and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own.
Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
- John Muir
When nature has work to be done,
she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing.
None is excluded, but excludes himself.
You have only to push aside the curtain.
- Henry David Thoreau
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed,
but nature does not depend on us.
We are not the only experiment.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
There are moments when all anxiety
and stated toil are becalmed
in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
- Henry David Thoreau
Study nature, love nature,
stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth?
Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every creature is better alive than dead,
men and moose and pine trees,
and he who understands it aright
will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have called this principle,
by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved,
by the term of Natural Selection.
- Charles Darwin
To the lover of wilderness,
Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
- John Muir
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