"They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life." ― Jane Austen Topic(s): Nature More From Jane Austen "There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them." "From politics, it was an easy step to silence." "A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment." More In Nature "Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever."― Andrew Cohen "If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned."― Mike Huckabee "Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them."― Jean Paul