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• No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer’s mind.

  Tom Watson

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Mind

• Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.

  Susanna Moodie

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Pride

• Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

  Susan Sontag

  Topics in History, Nature

• Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

  Fay Weldon

  Topics in Beauty, Nature

  Tags in Present, Women

• The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey’s happy as she is and she doesn’t need to be rescued, improved, or saved.

  Sue Grafton

  Topics in Nature, Truth

• The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

  Topics in Nature

• Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication with God, if you want to call all of this creation part of God.

  Story Musgrave

  Topics in Nature, Spirituality

• Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

  George Savile

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Ourselves

• By nature’s kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man’s power to answer do not occur to him at all.

  George Santayana

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Man

• Usually when you’re working is when people want you to work. They don’t want you as much when you’re not working. That’s the frustrating nature of our business.

  Faith Ford

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in People, Working

• I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

  George Sand

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Enthusiasm

• A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

  Cyril Northcote Parkinson

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Mechanical, Structure

• Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

  Cyril Connolly

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Water
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  From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

  Edvard Munch

  Topics in Death, Nature

  Tags in Eternity, Flowers

• My nature is to be linear, and when I’m not, I feel really proud of myself.

  Cynthia Weil

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Myself, Feel

• I’ve learned to be true to yourself, stick to the big arguments, don’t get distracted by the everyday kerfuffle that is in the nature of any democratic system.

  George Osborne

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Democratic, System, Yourself

• I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.

  Steve Lacy

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Collaboration

• Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.

  George Mason IV

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Useful, Purposes

• All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

  George Mason IV

  Topics in Nature

• There’s a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

  John Mayer

  Topics in Nature, Soul

  Tags in Music