"The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure." ― David Herbert Lawrence Topic(s): Nature Tags: fairest, nature, thing More From David Herbert Lawrence "One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it… and the journey is always towards the other soul." "My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle." "It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance." More In Nature "Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed."― Blaise Pascal "An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome."― John Ruskin "Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected."― Francois de La Rochefoucauld