"It will be years --not in my time-- before a woman will become Prime Minister."
--Margaret Thatcher, October 26th, 1969.
She became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom only 10 years after saying that, holding her chair from 1979 to 1990. But she wasn’t all that wrong since she is the only woman to have held this post. Maybe she should have added the word “again.”
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”
--Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.
It may sound ridiculous now, but the
prediction was actually true for about ten years after it was made. Almost every forecaster would settle for a ten year limit on the testing of their forecasts. Of course, by the 1980s and the advent of the PC, such a statement looked plain daft.
“That virus [HIV] is a pussycat.”
--Dr. Peter Duesberg, molecular-biology professor at U.C. Berkeley, 1988,
By 2006, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World Health Organization estimated that AIDS has killed more than 25 million people since it was first recognized on December 1, 1981.
"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy."
--Associates of Edwin L. Drake refusing his suggestion to drill for oil in 1859.
Only one hundred fifty years passed by since the first attempt to dig out oil from the ground met such contempt, and now the whole world is trying to look for unimaginable places to satiate the thirst for money that is propelled and sustained on this black gold.
“A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth’s atmosphere.”
--New York Times, 1936.
10 years later, in 1946, the first American-built rocket to leave the earth's atmosphere was launched from White Sands, attaining 50 miles of altitude.
"Reagan doesn’t have that presidential look."
--United Artists Executive, rejecting Reagan as lead in 1964 film The Best Man
Before becoming the 40th President of the United States in 1981, Ronald Reagan pursued an acting career, but spent the majority of his Hollywood career in the "B film" division. In 1964 he was rejected for a part in a movie with presidential candidate theme due to "not having the presidential look".
"The singer [Mick Jagger] will have to go; the BBC won’t like him."
--- First Rolling Stones manager Eric Easton to his partner after watching them perform.
We can only wonder what Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger, Golden Globe, Grammy Award-winning English singer-songwriter, rock musician and occasional actor, has to say about it now.
“Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.”
--Dr Dionysys Larder (1793-1859)
It may sound impossible to Dr Larder, professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy at the University College London back in the 1800, but in 1939 the first high speed train went from Milan to Florence at 165 km/h (102.5 mph). Thankfully no one died. Nowadays these trains go at 200 km/h (125 mph) and faster.
“Heavier-than- air flying machines are impossible.”
--Lord Kelvin, 1895.
This was said by Lord Kelvin (British mathematician and physicist, president of the British Royal Society) only eight years before brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright took their home-built flyer to the sandy dunes of Kitty Hawk, cranked up the engine, and took off into the history books.
"There will never be a bigger plane built."
--A Boeing engineer, after the first flight of the 247, a twin engine plane that holds ten people.
What would this engineer say if he saw the current largest passenger plane on earth, the Airbus A380? The Airbus A380 has 50% more floor space than arch rival Boeing's 747 Jumbo, with room for duty-free shops, restaurants and even a sauna, and can provide site for up to 853 people.
"Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard."
-- Tris Speaker, baseball hall of famer, talking about Babe Ruth, 1919.
Ruth has been named the greatest baseball player in history in various surveys and rankings, and his home run hitting prowess made him a larger than life figure in the "Roaring Twenties". He became the first player to hit 60 home runs in one season (1927), a record which stood for 34 years until broken by Roger Maris in 1961. Ruth's lifetime total of 714 home runs at his retirement in 1935 was a record for 39 years, until broken by Hank Aaron in 1974.
"Ours has been the first [expedition] , and doubtless to be the last, to visit this profitless locality."
---- Lt. Joseph Ives, after visiting the Grand Canyon in 1861.
More than a century later, five million people annually visit this "profitless locality," by car, foot, air, and on the Colorado River itself.
"If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one."
--W.C. Heuper, National Cancer Institute, 1954.
In 1964 the United States Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health began suggesting the relationship between smoking and cancer , which confirmed its suggestions 20 years later in the 1980s. Nowadays, it’s well known that long-term exposure to tobacco smoke is the most common causes of lung cancer .
"You better get secretarial work or get married."
--Emmeline Snively, advising would-be model Marilyn Monroe in 1944.
In 1944, Marilyn Monroe was discovered by a photographer who encouraged her to apply to The Blue Book modeling agency. She was told by Snively, director of the Modelling Agency that she should became a secretary, besides they were looking for models with lighter hair. So Marilyn dyed her brunette hair to a golden blonde. She finally signed a contract with the agency. And of course, became Blue Book's most successful model.
"Read my lips: No new taxes."
--George Bush, 1988.
That pledge was the centerpiece of Bush's acceptance address, written by speechwriter Peggy Noonan, for his party's nomination at the 1988 Republican National Convention . It was a strong, decisive, bold statement, and you don't need a history degree to see where this is going. As presidents sometimes must, Bush raised taxes. His words were used against him by then-Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton in a devastating attack ad during the 1992 presidential campaign.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
What Girls Feels
1.
When a girl says she's sad, but she isn't
crying, it means she's crying in her heart.
2.
When she ignores you after you've done
something wrong, it's best to give her some
time to cool down before touching her heart
with an apology.
3.
A girl can't find anything to hate about the
guy she loves (which is why it is so hard for
her to 'get over him' after the relationship' s
over.)
4.
If a girl loves a guy, he will always be on
her mind every minute of the day, even though
she flirts with other guys.
5.
When the guy she likes smiles and stares
deep into her eyes, she will melt.
6.
A girl likes to hear compliments, but usually
not sure how to react to them.
7.
When a particular guy flirts with a girl very
often, a girl would start thinking the guy likes
her. So if you treat a girl just as a friend, go
easy on the smiles and stare ok?
8.
If you don't like a girl who likes you, break
it to her gently.
9.
If a girl starts avoiding you after you reject
her, leave her alone for a while. If you still
treat her as a friend, talk to her.
10.
Girls enjoy talking about what they feel.
Music, poetry, drawings and writing are ways of
expressing themselves (which explains why
most girls like writing journals).
11.
Never tell a girl that she is useless in
anyway.
12.
Being too serious can turn a girl off.
13.
When the guy she likes calls her for the
first time, the girl may act uninterested during
the call. But as soon as the phone is back on
the hook, she will whoop with joy and
immediately start telephoning her friends to
spread the news.
14.
A smile means a lot to a girl.
15.
If you like a girl, try making friends with her
first. Let her get to know you.
16.
If a girl says she can't go out with you
because she has to study, leave.
17.
But if she still calls you or expect a call from
you, stay.
18.
Don't try to guess a girl's feelings. Ask her.
19.
Hearing the words "I love you" is a great
reassurance to a girl that she is beautiful.
20.
After a girl falls in love with a guy, she'll
wonder why she never noticed him before.
21.
If you need tips on how to flirt with a girl,
read romance stories.
22.
When class pictures come out, a girl would
first check who is standing next to her crush
before actually looking at herself.
23.
A girl's ex-crush will always be in her
memory, but the guy she loves now stays in
her heart.
24.
Girls love having fun!
25.
A simple 'Hi' can brighten a girl's day.
26.
A girl's best friends usually know best what
she is feeling and going through.
27.
Girls hate it when a guy pays attention to
them just to get close to their 'prettier' friend.
28.
Love means devotion, caring and
happiness
to a girl, in that order.
29.
Some girls care about looks, some care
about brains, but ALL girls want a guy who will
love and care for them.
30.
Girls want nothing more than to feel loved.
When a girl says she's sad, but she isn't
crying, it means she's crying in her heart.
2.
When she ignores you after you've done
something wrong, it's best to give her some
time to cool down before touching her heart
with an apology.
3.
A girl can't find anything to hate about the
guy she loves (which is why it is so hard for
her to 'get over him' after the relationship' s
over.)
4.
If a girl loves a guy, he will always be on
her mind every minute of the day, even though
she flirts with other guys.
5.
When the guy she likes smiles and stares
deep into her eyes, she will melt.
6.
A girl likes to hear compliments, but usually
not sure how to react to them.
7.
When a particular guy flirts with a girl very
often, a girl would start thinking the guy likes
her. So if you treat a girl just as a friend, go
easy on the smiles and stare ok?
8.
If you don't like a girl who likes you, break
it to her gently.
9.
If a girl starts avoiding you after you reject
her, leave her alone for a while. If you still
treat her as a friend, talk to her.
10.
Girls enjoy talking about what they feel.
Music, poetry, drawings and writing are ways of
expressing themselves (which explains why
most girls like writing journals).
11.
Never tell a girl that she is useless in
anyway.
12.
Being too serious can turn a girl off.
13.
When the guy she likes calls her for the
first time, the girl may act uninterested during
the call. But as soon as the phone is back on
the hook, she will whoop with joy and
immediately start telephoning her friends to
spread the news.
14.
A smile means a lot to a girl.
15.
If you like a girl, try making friends with her
first. Let her get to know you.
16.
If a girl says she can't go out with you
because she has to study, leave.
17.
But if she still calls you or expect a call from
you, stay.
18.
Don't try to guess a girl's feelings. Ask her.
19.
Hearing the words "I love you" is a great
reassurance to a girl that she is beautiful.
20.
After a girl falls in love with a guy, she'll
wonder why she never noticed him before.
21.
If you need tips on how to flirt with a girl,
read romance stories.
22.
When class pictures come out, a girl would
first check who is standing next to her crush
before actually looking at herself.
23.
A girl's ex-crush will always be in her
memory, but the guy she loves now stays in
her heart.
24.
Girls love having fun!
25.
A simple 'Hi' can brighten a girl's day.
26.
A girl's best friends usually know best what
she is feeling and going through.
27.
Girls hate it when a guy pays attention to
them just to get close to their 'prettier' friend.
28.
Love means devotion, caring and
happiness
to a girl, in that order.
29.
Some girls care about looks, some care
about brains, but ALL girls want a guy who will
love and care for them.
30.
Girls want nothing more than to feel loved.
90 Nature Quotations
1-" Nature is the art of God. "
-- Dante Alighieri
2- "The miracles of nature do not seem miracles because they are so common. If no one had ever seen a flower, even a dandelion would be the most startling event in the world."
-- Anonymous
3- "There is a wonderful law of nature that the three things we crave most- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind- are always attained by giving them to someone else. "
--Anonymous
4- "Our understandings are always liable to error Nature and certainty are very hard to come at, and infallibility is mere vanity and pretense "
-- Marcus Antoninus
5- "Nature does nothing uselessly. "
-- Aristotle
6- "If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature's way. "
-- Aristotle
7- "In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous. "
-- Aristotle
8- "A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children. "
-- John James Audubon
9- "They are much to be pitied who have not been… given a taste for nature early in life."
-- Jane Austin
10- "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. "
-- Francis Bacon
11- "Great things are done when men and mountains meet. "
-- William Blake
12- "The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity ... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."
-- William Blake
13- "Nature is the art of God. "
-- Thomas Browne
14- "Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. "
-- Jacob Brownowski
15- "Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives."
-- Mary Ann Brussat
16- "Give me a spark of Nature's fire. That's all the learning I desire. "
-- Robert Burns
17- "I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in tune once more. "
-- John Burroughs
18- "Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. "
-- John Burroughs
19- "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf's a flower. "
-- Albert Camus
20- "It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility. "
-- Rachel Carson
21- "In every out thrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is a story of the earth. "
-- Rachel Carson
22- "The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible. In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world -- the very nature of its life. "
-- Rachel Carson 1962
23- "Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. "
-- Rachel Carson
24- "Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. "
-- George Washington Carver
25- "Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries."
-- Jimmy Carter
26- "It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever."
-- Jimmy Carter
27- "Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life. "
-- George Washington Carver
28- "The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; she never produces classes. "
-- Lydia Maria Child
29- "Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. "
-- Arthur C. Clarke
30- "The earth laughs in flowers. "
-- e.e. cummings
31- "All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child. "
-- Marie Curie
32- "Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on so support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship "
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero
33- "If I have learned nothing else in all these months in the woods, I have thoroughly learned to keep hands off the processes of nature."
-- Laura Lee Davidson
34- "Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. "
-- Michel de Montaigne
35- "Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature. "
-- Gerard De Nerval
36- "Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. "
-- Albert Einstein
37- "The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God."
-- Euclid
38- "Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
39- "A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. "
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
40- "Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them. "
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
41- "The method of nature: who could ever analyze it? "
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
42- "When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it "
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
43- "All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair. "
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
44- "All nature wears one universal grin. "
-- Henry Fielding
45- "If you poison the environment, the environment will poison you. "
-- Tony Follari
46- "Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint. "
-- Robert Frost
47- "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
48- "Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun. "
-- Kahlil Gibran
49- "And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. "
-- Kahlil Gibran
50- "I believe in rain, in odd miracles, in the intelligence that allows terns and swallows to find their way across Earth. "
-- Paul Hawkins
51- "You can't just let nature run wild. "
-- Wally Hickel
52- "Nature yields her most profound secrets to the person who is determined to uncover them."
-- Napoleon Hill
53- "Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price. "
-- Napoleon Hill
54- "The supernatural is the natural not yet understood. "
-- Elbert Hubbard
55- "Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing."
-- Thomas H. Huxley
56- "There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. "
-- Thomas Jefferson
57- "Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness. "
-- Samuel Johnson
58- "I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. "
-- Miriam Makeba
59- "Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them "
-- A. A. Milne Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh
60- "In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks."
--John Muir
61- "Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. "
-- John Muir
62- "Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. "
-- John Muir
63- "Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts."
-- John Muir
64- "The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thought and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains."
-- John Muir
65- "Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. "
-- Alfred Bernhard Nobel
66- "A flower touches everyone's heart. "
-- Georgia O'Keefe
67- "Like water, be gentle and strong. Be gentle enough to follow the natural paths of the earth, and strong enough to rise up and reshape the world. "
-- Brenda Peterson
68- "You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature."
-- William Rotsler
69- "Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spend time wondering why nature is the way it is."
-- Carl Sagan
70- "If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty, and the fields would no longer be decked, out with little wildflowers. "
-- Saint Therese of Lisieux
71- "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. "
-- William Shakespeare
72- "What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it."
-- Isaac Bashevis Singer
73- "See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all. "
-- Socrates
74- "A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows. "
-- St. Francis of Assisi
75- "Wildness can be a way of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope. "
-- Wallace Stenger
76- "The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. "
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
77- "Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence. "
-- Alfred Billings Street
78- "There are for starters, grandeur and silence, pure water and clean air. There is also the gift of distance … the chance to stand away from relationships and daily ritual … and the gift of energy. Wilderness infuses us with its own special brand of energy."
-- Lynn Thomas
79- "Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance. "
-- Henry David Thoreau
80- "Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not. "
-- Henry David Thoreau upon the death of his brother
81- "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
82- "The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival. "
-- Morris K. Udall
83- "The more we are separated from nature, the unhappier we get. "
-- Unknown
84- "You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder. "
-- Unknown
85- "The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her. "
-- Vincent Van Gogh
86- "Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions. "
-- Mary Webb
87- "I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. "
-- Walt Whitman
88- "Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success. "
-- Oscar Wilde
89- "Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. "
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
90- "Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage "
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
-- Dante Alighieri
2- "The miracles of nature do not seem miracles because they are so common. If no one had ever seen a flower, even a dandelion would be the most startling event in the world."
-- Anonymous
3- "There is a wonderful law of nature that the three things we crave most- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind- are always attained by giving them to someone else. "
--Anonymous
4- "Our understandings are always liable to error Nature and certainty are very hard to come at, and infallibility is mere vanity and pretense "
-- Marcus Antoninus
5- "Nature does nothing uselessly. "
-- Aristotle
6- "If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature's way. "
-- Aristotle
7- "In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous. "
-- Aristotle
8- "A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children. "
-- John James Audubon
9- "They are much to be pitied who have not been… given a taste for nature early in life."
-- Jane Austin
10- "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. "
-- Francis Bacon
11- "Great things are done when men and mountains meet. "
-- William Blake
12- "The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity ... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."
-- William Blake
13- "Nature is the art of God. "
-- Thomas Browne
14- "Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. "
-- Jacob Brownowski
15- "Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives."
-- Mary Ann Brussat
16- "Give me a spark of Nature's fire. That's all the learning I desire. "
-- Robert Burns
17- "I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in tune once more. "
-- John Burroughs
18- "Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. "
-- John Burroughs
19- "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf's a flower. "
-- Albert Camus
20- "It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility. "
-- Rachel Carson
21- "In every out thrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is a story of the earth. "
-- Rachel Carson
22- "The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible. In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world -- the very nature of its life. "
-- Rachel Carson 1962
23- "Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. "
-- Rachel Carson
24- "Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. "
-- George Washington Carver
25- "Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries."
-- Jimmy Carter
26- "It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever."
-- Jimmy Carter
27- "Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life. "
-- George Washington Carver
28- "The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; she never produces classes. "
-- Lydia Maria Child
29- "Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. "
-- Arthur C. Clarke
30- "The earth laughs in flowers. "
-- e.e. cummings
31- "All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child. "
-- Marie Curie
32- "Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on so support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship "
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero
33- "If I have learned nothing else in all these months in the woods, I have thoroughly learned to keep hands off the processes of nature."
-- Laura Lee Davidson
34- "Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. "
-- Michel de Montaigne
35- "Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature. "
-- Gerard De Nerval
36- "Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. "
-- Albert Einstein
37- "The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God."
-- Euclid
38- "Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
39- "A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. "
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
40- "Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them. "
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
41- "The method of nature: who could ever analyze it? "
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
42- "When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it "
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
43- "All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair. "
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
44- "All nature wears one universal grin. "
-- Henry Fielding
45- "If you poison the environment, the environment will poison you. "
-- Tony Follari
46- "Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint. "
-- Robert Frost
47- "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
48- "Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun. "
-- Kahlil Gibran
49- "And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. "
-- Kahlil Gibran
50- "I believe in rain, in odd miracles, in the intelligence that allows terns and swallows to find their way across Earth. "
-- Paul Hawkins
51- "You can't just let nature run wild. "
-- Wally Hickel
52- "Nature yields her most profound secrets to the person who is determined to uncover them."
-- Napoleon Hill
53- "Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price. "
-- Napoleon Hill
54- "The supernatural is the natural not yet understood. "
-- Elbert Hubbard
55- "Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing."
-- Thomas H. Huxley
56- "There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. "
-- Thomas Jefferson
57- "Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness. "
-- Samuel Johnson
58- "I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. "
-- Miriam Makeba
59- "Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them "
-- A. A. Milne Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh
60- "In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks."
--John Muir
61- "Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. "
-- John Muir
62- "Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. "
-- John Muir
63- "Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts."
-- John Muir
64- "The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thought and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains."
-- John Muir
65- "Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. "
-- Alfred Bernhard Nobel
66- "A flower touches everyone's heart. "
-- Georgia O'Keefe
67- "Like water, be gentle and strong. Be gentle enough to follow the natural paths of the earth, and strong enough to rise up and reshape the world. "
-- Brenda Peterson
68- "You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature."
-- William Rotsler
69- "Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spend time wondering why nature is the way it is."
-- Carl Sagan
70- "If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty, and the fields would no longer be decked, out with little wildflowers. "
-- Saint Therese of Lisieux
71- "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. "
-- William Shakespeare
72- "What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it."
-- Isaac Bashevis Singer
73- "See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all. "
-- Socrates
74- "A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows. "
-- St. Francis of Assisi
75- "Wildness can be a way of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope. "
-- Wallace Stenger
76- "The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. "
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
77- "Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence. "
-- Alfred Billings Street
78- "There are for starters, grandeur and silence, pure water and clean air. There is also the gift of distance … the chance to stand away from relationships and daily ritual … and the gift of energy. Wilderness infuses us with its own special brand of energy."
-- Lynn Thomas
79- "Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance. "
-- Henry David Thoreau
80- "Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not. "
-- Henry David Thoreau upon the death of his brother
81- "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
82- "The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival. "
-- Morris K. Udall
83- "The more we are separated from nature, the unhappier we get. "
-- Unknown
84- "You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder. "
-- Unknown
85- "The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her. "
-- Vincent Van Gogh
86- "Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions. "
-- Mary Webb
87- "I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. "
-- Walt Whitman
88- "Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success. "
-- Oscar Wilde
89- "Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. "
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
90- "Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage "
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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