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The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Related topics: Nature
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci 
Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep,
so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
- Leonardo da Vinci
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
You can have no dominion greater or
less than that over yourself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Beyond a doubt, truth bears the same relation
to falsehood as light to darkness.
- Leonardo da Vinci
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Leonardo da Vinci
As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff.
Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Water is the driving force of all nature.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Nature never breaks her own laws.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Human subtlety will never devise an invention
more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature,
because in her inventions nothing is lacking,
and nothing is superfluous.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
For once you have tasted flight
you will walk the earth
with your eyes turned skywards,
for there you have been
and there you will long to return.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The smallest seed of faith is better than
the largest fruit of happiness.
- Henry David Thoreau
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe,
nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws,
but the smallest insect, we wish
to be created at once by special act.
- Charles Darwin
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
"Sometimes," said Pooh, "the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch,
a smile, a kind word, a listening ear,
an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring,
all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
- Leo Buscaglia
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people
who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Tony Robbins
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
There is sanctuary in being alone with nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Trees are the earth's endless effort
to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
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
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
Flowers are Nature's messengers -
reminders of an unspeakable beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures
from the shelter of compassion and pity,
you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Treat the earth well,
It was not given to you by your parents,
It was loaned to you by your children.
- Native American Proverb
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
Have you ever hugged a tree?
Hug a tree, and one day you will come to know
that it is not only that
you have hugged the tree
but that the tree also responds,
the tree also hugs you.
- Osho
Hold on... Joyfully.
Holding-on does not have to be
a desperate teeth-gritting kind of holding-on.
Holding-on can be a joyful
"this is just the nature of Life,
so I may as well enjoy it"
kind of holding-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
Every blade of grass has an angel
that bends over it and whispers, "grow! grow!
- Talmud
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
- Henry David Thoreau
Let us be silent, that we may
hear the whispers of the gods.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy,
if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you,
if the simple things in nature have a message you understand,
Rejoice, for your soul is alive.
- Eleanora Duse
Pause to appreciate the beauty around you.
Whether rainbow or butterfly,
mountain or tree, painting or poem -
whether crafted by nature or by a human hand -
beauty adds a magical element to life
that surpasses logic and science.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When nature has work to be done,
she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
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
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
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
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
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Joy in looking and comprehending
is nature's most beautiful gift.
- Albert Einstein
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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