"To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment." ― Jane Austen Topic(s): Nature More From Jane Austen "To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive." "Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance." "Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything." More In Nature "Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed."― Desiderius Erasmus "There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with."― Harry Crews "America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think."― Jerry Garcia