"Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves." ― Percy Bysshe Shelley Topic(s): Nature More From Percy Bysshe Shelley "Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted." "Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it." "Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay." More In Nature "It doesn’t take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation."― Scott Adams "It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us."― John Ruskin "Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage."― Mason Cooley