If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day. --Alex Noble (in Untitled)

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else. --Peyton Conway March (in Fairy Godmother)

One Touch of nature makes the whole world kin. --William Shakespeare - Troilus and Cressida (in Green Clean)

It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. --Nathaniel Hawthorne (in Sorry's State of Affairs)

When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (in Reading A Blade of Grass)

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. --Henry Ward Beecher (in The Artist Who Was A Horse)

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story. --Linda Hogan (in Japan's Carbon Footprint Labels)

An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth. --Auguste Rodin (in One Woman's Artistic Gift)

We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted. --Theodore Roosevelt (in Temporary Urban PARK(ing))

I have never come across anything in nature that is superfluous and does not fulfill a function. There seems to be no redundancy or unemployment in these natural worlds. Be it rock or plant, bird or tree, or even the bacteria within the soil, everything occupies a vital place in the dance of life. --Michael Lindfield (in Eco-Cities For 400 Million People)

Give like the rose gives its perfume -- effortlessly, unconditionally because it is its own nature. --Swami Vivekananda (in $10,000 Tip On A $26 Tab)

There is something deep within our nature. A guiding light if you will. A voice that always speaks of goodness. A voice that is always moving us towards more love, towards more life. Can we hear it? Sitting in silence is an attempt to become in tune with your own self, with your own voice. --Sukh Chugh (in One Million Meditate for Peace)

In this new world, you and I make it up as we go along, not because we lack expertise or planning skills, but because that is the nature of reality. Reality changes shape and meaning because of our activity. And it is constantly new. We are required to be there, as active participants. It can’t happen without us and nobody can do it for us. --Margaret Wheatley (in The Business of Changing the World)

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures. --Vincent Van Gogh (in A Young Bird-Lover's Opportune Shot)

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. --John Muir (in Creating Breathing Places)

To be the agent whose touch changes nature from a wild force to a work of art is inspiration of the highest order. --Bob Rodale (in A 17-year-old's Life-saving Breakthrough)

To live more simply is to unburden our lives -- to live more lightly, cleanly, aerodynamically. It is to establish a more direct, unpretentious and unencumbered relationship with all aspects of our lives: the things that we consume, the work that we do, our relationships with others, our connections with nature and the cosmos, and more. --Duane Elgin (in A Dollar A Year CEO)

Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment. --Ross Perot (in Lessons From A Dyslexic CEO)

It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility. --Nathaniel Hawthorne (in Harvard Professor Resolves Ethiopian Crisis)

Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast. --William Shakespeare (in The Science Of Sleep and Scent)

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. --Juvenal (in Strangest Sights on Earth)

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. --Martin Luther (in Finding Gifts That Don't Harm)

Almost everyone thinks that "nature" is a good thing, but few can grasp the difference between natural and unnatural. --Masanobu Fukuoka (in Do-Nothing Cultivation)

Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe, an unconditional state that characterizes human nature, a form of knowledge that is always there for us if only we can open ourselves to it. -- Emily Hilburn Sell (in My Hour on the Streets of New York)

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. --Albert Einstein (in A Stroke of Insight)

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things. --Ansel Adams (in Capturing Final, Precious Moments)

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves. --Rachel Carson (in Restoring The World's Coral Reefs)

But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. --Thomas Paine (in Zero-Emission Car)

Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking. --Mariannne Williamson (in Resonant Leadership)

See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls. --Mother Teresa (in Saving the Sound of Silence)

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. --Helen Keller (in The Real Meaning of Security)

Everyone understands that water is essential to life. But many are only just now beginning to grasp how essential it is to everything in life food, energy, transportation, nature, leisure, identity, culture, social norms, and virtually all the products used on a daily basis. --World Business Council for Sustainable Development (in Flow: The Movie About Water)

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else. --Peyton Conway March (in Designing For Generosity)

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy. --Susan Polis Schutz (in The Artist Who Paints Disappearing Rain Forests)

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day. --Alex Nobel (in Estonians Build a Happiness Bank)

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day. --Alex Noble (in Stir Your World)

Life is a gift of nature; but beautiful living is the gift of wisdom. --Greek Adage (in 1 Piece of Advice)

Considering the whole span of earthly time ... Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world --Rachel Carson (in Putting the Cycling in Recycling)

The world and everything in it is being strained to the breaking point...strained to the point of transformation. It's our being brought to a point... closer to contact with our essential nature, to the truth of our own experience. --Tom Hurley (in You are Brilliant -- and the Earth is Hiring)

Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast. --William Shakespeare (in How Much Sleep Do We Need?)

Healing is communication; and music, in its universal nature, is total communication. In the deepest mysteries of music are the inspirations, the pathways, and the healing which lead to one-ness and unity. --Olivea Dewhurst-Maddock (in Purple Songs Can Fly)

Listen to the course of the world and to your own nature; and you'll know what to do. Most people think that dialogue is a form of talking. It's more about articulating what's been heard and at what level. What are you actually listening to? --Bill Isaacs (in The Art of Dialogue)

An invention that is narrowly focused on solving a single problem often inadvertently creates more problems because nature is highly complex and interconnected. --Javier Fernandez-Han, Age 15 (in 15-year-old Social Entrepreneur-Inventor)

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. --Laurence Sterne (in A Twelve Year Old's Forgiveness)

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. --Eleanor Roosevelt (in Hardest Working Mayor of North America)

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (in A Walk In The Park)

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. --Lao Tzu (in Sharing Nature's Design)

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. --John Muir (in In Copehagen: A 15-year-old's Call to Action)

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day. --Alex Noble (in Born To Help)

Life is a gift of nature; but beautiful living is the gift of wisdom. --Greek Adage (in 70 Words of Wisdom for 2010)