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Ay Ay Ay Ay Ay Ay A-A-Ay
Woohoo Woohoo
Ay Ay Ay Ay Ay Ay A-A-Ay
Woohoo Woohoo

I'm alone, it's just me just
And I’m watchin’ TV
And I’m always oh, so bored at home
I get up, I get out
Drive my car way downtown
Keep on calling, but you’re never around
See my friends out tonight
Under these city lights
In the club till someone starts a fight
Then we get in the car
Still don't know where you are
I'm so annoyed, always hanging around

And I'm so tired
You’re fired

I’m so jealous, restless, relentless
That’s just me.
I'm so crazy lately
Come on, let it be
Don't make me beg for the things I need
You know what they say
Where there’s a will, there’s a way
Lies are free
Talk is cheap

Ay Ay Ay Ay Ay Ay A-A-Ay
Woohoo Woohoo

Now we’re out in the street
And we sweat in the heat
And we move with the traffic and the beat
I don't care if you choke
When you light up your smoke
It’s the one thing I can call my own

It’s so tragic
I’m so in it

I’m so jealous, restless, relentless
That’s just me.
I'm so crazy lately
Come on, let it be
Don't make me beg for the things I need
You know what they say
Where there’s a will, there’s a way
Lies are free
Talk is cheap

Ay Ay Ay Ay Ay Ay A-A-Ay
Woohoo Woohoo

I’m so tired
You’re fired

I’m so jealous, restless, relentless
That’s just me.
I'm so crazy lately
Come on, let it be
Don't make me beg for the things I need
You know what they say
Where there’s a will, there’s a way
Lies are free
Talk is cheap

Ay Ay Ay Ay Ay Ay A-A-Ay
Woohoo Woohoo

Ay Ay Ay Ay Ay Ay A-A-Ay
Woohoo

Talk is cheap, yeah

Ay Ay Ay Ay Ay Ay A-A-Ay
Woohoo Woohoo

Ay Ay Ay Ay Ay Ay A-A-Ay

Yeah, lies are free
And talk is cheap

To live and do job in saudia you need to consider the following points, these are the points which i heard from others and also experienced them by my self while living in Saudia


1. Weather is extreme - Extremely hot for 9+ months - extremely cold for 2+ months - when I mean hot, it means really hot & extremely dry - mercury touching 50+ Celsius - and when I mean cold - it means around 0 celsius with almost 0 to 10 % humidity throughout the year - so far so that in Summers it gets a little too difficult to take a shower from direct tap water 24x7 - so you have to cool it down a little in a tub before actually you can take shower. To avoid this - there are humidifiers available.

2. Shops,markets are closed 15-20 minutes before prayer times & are open 15-20 minutes after prayers - so if you end up on the road & not offering prayers - most likely you will end up behind the bars for atleast a couple of hours - and in most cases your sponsor would be required to come and get you free.

3. Expect a lots of discrimination if you are holding indian/pakistani/ bangladeshi/ (South Asian or South East Asian) Passport. If you hold western/european/ american/ aus passport then you will be given preference in every thing & anything dealing with the government/ministri es/immigration.

4. Do check for the title of your visa as lots of things are dependant on that - you can not bring your family to Saudi Arabia if you hold labour/technician/ mason/fabricator etc visa - usually companies who do not have an engineer/manager visa - they'll bring you there on technician/labour visa - then changing profession on visa/iqama itself is a painful excercise.

5. Dealing with saudis in your administration department is awfully difficult - and patience is the key while you are in saudi arabia. there is a famous quote 'Inshallah Buqra Massalam' I.B.M. that everything is postponed to tomorrow - which usually means a denial - and if you keep on following up then you might get things done in a week or weeks time - which usually shouldn't take more than a few minutes.

6. Service sector in particular & anything where you have to deal with saudis (usually banks) generally would test your patience to the extreme - a simple thing like opening an account with a bank might take more than 3-4 visits to the bank and each visit costing more than a few hours.

7. For almost everything from renting a house to bringing your family to saudi arabia to opening a bank account or to take a driving lic would require you to have a letter from your company/sponsor and then it should be attested from the Chamber of Commerece or what we used to call it Gurfa e Tajariya.

8. Food is excellent throughout saudi arabia - there are excellent restaurants as far as Riyadh is concerned.

9 0% Taxes & almost everything is subsidiazed - food is really cheap - a good meal in a reasonable restaurant can cost from 10 SR upwards.

10. Driving on the road is extremely RASH - Saudis are notorious for the exceptionally skilled rash driving & especially when making a u-turn.

11. Crime rate is usually low - but there have been cases in Riyadh recently where people have been deprived of their money & valuables.

12. It is very difficult for a single woman to commute at her own & is extremely risky!!!!

13. Never ever try to meat a person of opposite gender in public place - chances are there you'll be caught & your might get your passport stamped as 'Prostitute', sending yourself on 'RED Exit' - that means that you can not return to Saudi Arabia for the rest of your life.

14. YOU REQUIRE A VISA to leave the Kingdom!!! that is called Exit-Re-Entry Visa - whenever you need to travel outside Saudi Arabia - you need to have Exit-Re-Entry Visa - a single Exit-Re-Entry visa would cost you 200 SR - unless you are in a managarial position with a good title on your visa - you wont get the multiple-exit- re-entry visa - multitple exit-re-entry visa costs around 500 SR. This is arranged by your company/sponsor! ! You can not leave the kingdom without the consent of your employer/sponsor.

15. There is nothing much to do (eating/shopping/ driving) unless you are living in a compound - living in a compound can cost you 120,000 SR upwards per annum.

16. Cost of living otherwise is very low - a reasonable 2 bed room appartment can cost you 15,000/- SR to 35,000/- SR per annum - depending on the area/building.

You are required to pay your house rent bi-annually! - i.e. you have to pay 6 months rent in advance! If you decide to pay for 12 months then you might get a discount of 1 month's rent. 300 SR per annum are water charges & usually 500 SR per annum is property dealer/agent's charges.

17. Your salary is usually like Basic + (Basic*3/12) as House Rent + Transportation Allowance (usually 500 to 1000 SR) per month.

18. Petrol/Benzene is dirt cheap - cheaper than water - even cheaper than air - 0.45 SR per litre for 91-Octane & 0.65 SR per litre for 95-Octane.

19. Cars are cheap!! - You can get a toyota Camry 2005-2006 for 30,000/- SR to 35,000/- SR.

20. Public Transport doesn't seem to exist - Taxis are cheap as compared to other countries.
21. Very low utility bills.

22. Saudi Riyal is pegged with US Dollar - i.e. 1 USD = 3.756 Saudi Riyals - there are no chances that this pegging would go away.
23. Usually your career would be stagnant - chances of learning are very low. You'll be doing whatever you've been doing - chances of promotion/career growth are limited.

Fear God and you will have no cause to fear any one

Resignation to the Will of God is the cure of the disease of the heart

The word of God is the medicine of the heart

Lead such a life, that, when you die, the people may mourn you, and while you are alive they long for your company

The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive

Of all the follies the greatest is to love the world

Opportunity is swift of flight but slow to return

The most happy is he to whom God has given a good wife

He who knows himself knows God

Do not soil your conscience for anything but heaven

The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body

To fight against one's desires is the greatest of all fights

The strongest amongst you is he who subdues his self

Wealth and greed are the roots of all evils

Riches without faith are the greatest poverty

A man's worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations

Knowledge enlivens the soul

The sum total of excellence is knowledge

To respect the learned is to respect God

Generosity hides shortcomings

The wealth of a miser is as useless as a pebble

Desire is one's most inveterate enemy

Those who walk on the surface of the earth shall one day be interred in it

Every breath of man brings him nearer to death

People are asleep as long as they are alive; they are awakened when they die

Patience is the fruit of faith

Virtue never dies

A man's glory from his virtue is greater than the glory of his pedigree

No shelter is safer than piety

A man's behaviour is the index of his mind

Courtesy costs nothing but buys everything

Clemency graces power

Jealousy devours virtue as fire devours fuel

He that lends a listening ear to reproach is one of those that deserve reproach

Forgiveness is the crown of greatness

Carnal appetites are nets spread by the devil

Every arrow does not hit the mark, nor every prayer granted

Ostentatiousness spoils prayers

Fear none but your sins

He who praises you murders you

A man who praises himself displays his deficiency of intellect

Honour your parents and your sons will honour you

A man is hid under his tongue

The tongue of a wise man lies behind his heart

The tongue pierces deeper than the spear

He who purifies his heart from doubt is a believer

The opinion of a wise man is an oracle

To seek counsel is to go to the fountain of guidance

Association with a fool is tyrannical to the soul

God hastens the fall of tyrants

Tyranny leads to moral cowardice

A tyrant's success is his moral defeat

It is better to die than to beg

When a man begs he loses his faith

Hajj is the Jihad of every believer in faith

A wise enemy is better than a foolish friend

Silence is the best reply to a fool

The best speech is one that is short and reasonable

Speech is like a medicine, a small dose of which cures but an excess of which kills

He that has no courage has no religion

His grief is long whose hope is short

The right of freedom of speech consists in speaking the truth

Repentance washes away sins

Folly is an incurable disease

To assist the wrong is to oppress the right

Sinning is a disease, repentance is its medicine, and abstinence from it a sure cure

Sorrow makes a man old before his time

Pride impedes progress and mars greatness

To forgive is the crown of greatness

He who understands humanity seeks solitude

Right is the best argument

Misrepresentation spoils narration

As a man's wisdom increases, so his desire to speak decreases

He who seeks to do justice with men, let him desire for them what he desires for himself

The greatest sin is the sin that the sinner considers to be ordinary

Contentment is the asset which is never exhausted

Governments are a trial for men

He who fights against the truth, the truth will defeat him

Finding fault in others is one's greatest fault

Haste is a species of madness

Greed is perpetual enslavement

He who does not know his own worth is doomed to destruction

The best investment is one with which duties are performed

Anger is a fire kindled, he who restrains anger extinguishes the fire; he who gives vent to it is the first to be consumed by such fire

Jihad is the highway of prosperity

None is more solitary than a miser

Knowledge is the ornament of the rich, and the riches of the poor

Knowledge is the sum total of excellence

He who teaches you a letter binds you with a fetter of gratitude

As long as we do not hope, we do not fret

He who indulges in jokes and loose fall, loses a part of his wisdom

Truth is bitter, but its result is sweet; falsehood appears to be sweet but it is poisonous in its effect

Miserliness is the root of many evils

Knowledge and practice are twins, and both go together. There is no knowledge without practice, and no practice without knowledge

He who dissembles plays with his honour [who makes believe with the intent to deceive]

When God wants to humiliate a person He deprives him of knowledge

When your power increases, decrease your desires accordingly

He who listens to a backbiter loses a friend

It is no justice to decide a case on mere conjecture

He who does not know his own worth is deemed to ignominy

He who practices thrift would never be in want

He who does not know should not be ashamed to learn

Patience is to faith, what head is to the body, when patience goes, faith goes, when head goes, the body goes

The grace of God is the best guide

A good disposition is the best companion

Wisdom is the best friend

Good breeding is the best inheritance

There is nothing more hateful than pride

Be among men like bee among birds

Mix with the people with your tongue, but be separate from them in your deeds

Be generous but do not be a spendthrift

Do not run after the world; let the world run after you

A wise man is he who does not despair of the bounty and mercy of God

He who is aware of his own faults is oblivious of the faults of others

What the eye sees the heart preserves

The vision of the eye is limited; the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space

Do not be misled by appearances for these are apt to be deceptive

Do not have too many irons in the fire; concentrate on one thing at a time

What you do not like for your self, do not like it for others

Contentment is the treasure which is never exhausted

The advice of old men is dearer than the bravery of young men

That knowledge is superficial which is merely on the tongue; that knowledge is real which demonstrates itself in your practice

Waste of time is one's greatest loss

He who knows to keep his secret knows the way to success

Foresight is the way to safety

No relationship is stronger than the relationship that exists between man and God

Enlighten the heart with prayers

Strengthen your heart with faith

Suppress all lust with piety

Do not sell the Hereafter for the world

Do not speak in a state of ignorance

Refrain from unnecessary talk

Do not tread the path from which you can apprehend the danger of running astray

In the affairs of God, do not be afraid of the accusations of the evil mongers

In all that you do seek the protection of God

Do not covet what is undesirable

If you seek the truth, neither strays from the right path, nor be assailed by doubts

Do not become a slave of your desires

That wealth is no wealth which brings dishonour

Whatever harm accrues of silence can be remedied but whatever harm is done because of speech cannot be remedied

It is better to restrain your desires than to stretch your hand before others

A little that is earned because of honest labour is better than a larger amount gained through dishonest means

Guard well your secret

He who seeks more than what is necessary indulges in error

To oppress the weak is the worst tyranny

Do not bank on false hopes, for that is the capital of the dead

A wise man takes a lesson even from a minor lapse

Overpower desires and suspicions by patience and faith

He who does not take the middle course strays

A stranger is he who has no friends

When hopes are frustrated despair becomes the way of life

He who trusts the world, the world betrays him

If you love God, tear out your heart's love of the world

The fear of God makes one secure

How can you rejoice this life that grows shorter each hour?

A world wide reputation can be undone by an hour's degradation

Three defects make life miserable; Vindictiveness, Jealousy, A bad character

One who is proud of worldly possessions in this fleeting existence is ignorant

Joy is followed by tears

Each breath of man is a step nearer to death

The best man among us is he who is most helpful to his fellow men

One who thinks himself the best is the worst

The hated person is one who returns evil for good

Virtue is the key to success

Learned men live after death; ignorant men are dead although alive

There is no treasure like knowledge gained

Knowledge is wisdom and educated man is the wise man

Experience is knowledge gained

He who never corrects himself will never correct another

Listen and you will teach yourself: remain silent, and you risk nothing

The one, who reflects on God’s gifts, succeeds

Ignorance harms a man more than a cancer

One of the signs of stupid man is the frequent change of opinion

Never speak when it is not the time for speech

Beware of backbiting it sows the seed of bitterness, and separates you from God and man

The best truth is the keeping of promises

Better be dumb than lie

Do not flatter, it is no sign of faith

A hypocrite's tongue is clean, but there is sickness in his heart.

Better to be alone than with bad company

Whoever sows good, reaps his reward

Unfortunately the Pakistan Army has been the butt of Public Criticism during the last few years, but the people forget that the Pakistan Army and its valiant soldiers have always been injecting the fresh blood in the national polity by their inimitable sacrifices, be it the floods or the earthquake or the war against the enemy.

Same spirit of sacrifice and valour is being exhibited in the ongoing struggle against the militants. The heroic story of Major ABID MAJEED bears testimony to this reality. On the fateful morning of May 18, 2009 Major Abid Majeed’s brother Major Khalid was entrusted the task of recurring the area from Shalpalam to Jura whereas Major Abid Majeed’s company was responsible for securing the area from Jura to Nazarabad. Major Khalid’s company successfully secured the area followed by Major Abid Majeed. Thereafter Major Abid Majeed’s company was ordered to more forward. Thirteen vehicles of the company moved to safety however the last vehicle came under heavy and precise firing, near a nullah bend, by the militants. The driver of the vehicle embraced martyrdom there and then. No more movement was possible as the route was blocked. The forward troops tried to move back and rescue the trapped soldiers, however due to accurate and effective firing by the militants the movement was not possible. It was then at 1645 hrs that Major Abid Majeed decided to move back himself. He took two soldiers, the first aid kit and a water bottle and ordered his company to engage the militants. In the rain of bullets he rushed to site, dragged the two bleeding soldiers Sepoy Tariq and Sepoy Nausherwan to a place of safety. He immediately poured water into their mouths and then started bandaging them to stop the flow of blood. In the meantime his shoulder got exposed and shot. Not bettered by it, he kept engaged himself in the task of bandaging. The second bullet hit in his ribs, still did not prevent him from completing his task. Unmoved by the blood gushing out of his wounds he dragged the soldiers to a safer place. In the process he was hit by three bullets and he fell down. While bleeding profusely, he took the wireless to talk to his brother Major Khalid (for the last time), who was 100 meters away. "BROTHER I HAVE TO PAY SO MUCH TO SO AND SO, DO NOT FORGET IT. TAKE CARE OF THE MOTHER AND UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES LEAVE THE JOB OF ELIMINATING THE MISCREANTS INCOMPLETE. I WISH I COULD MARCH ON TO MINGORA AND SEE IT CLEAR OF THE MILITANTS". And then he succumbed to his injuries but he managed to save the lives of two soldier/comrades.

Sepoy Tariq and Nowsharwan can not control their tears at the mention of Major Abid Majeed’s name. The only words they utter are" Why Major Sahib why not us".

Long live Pakistan Army! Long Live Pakistan!

Brigadier Syed Azmat Ali
Rawalpindi

source: www.ispr.gov.pk

1. "Nature is the art of God. "
-- Dante Alighieri
2. "The miracles of nature do not seem miracles because they are so common. If no one had ever seen a flower, even a dandelion would be the most startling event in the world."
-- Anonymous
3. "There is a wonderful law of nature that the three things we crave most- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind- are always attained by giving them to someone else. "
--Anonymous
4. "Our understandings are always liable to error Nature and certainty are very hard to come at, and infallibility is mere vanity and pretense "
-- Marcus Antoninus
5. "Nature does nothing uselessly. "
-- Aristotle
6. "If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature's way. "
-- Aristotle
7. "In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous. "
-- Aristotle
8. "A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children. "
-- John James Audubon
9. "They are much to be pitied who have not been… given a taste for nature early in life."
-- Jane Austin
10. "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. "
-- Francis Bacon
11. "Great things are done when men and mountains meet. "
-- William Blake
12. "The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity ... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."
-- William Blake
13. "Nature is the art of God. "
-- Thomas Browne
14. "Man masters nature not by force but by understanding."
-- Jacob Brownowski
15. "Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives."
-- Mary Ann Brussat
16. "Give me a spark of Nature's fire. That's all the learning I desire. "
-- Robert Burns
17. "I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in tune once more. "
-- John Burroughs
18. "Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. "
-- John Burroughs
19. "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf's a flower. "
-- Albert Camus
20. "It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility. "
-- Rachel Carson
21. "In every out thrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is a story of the earth. "
-- Rachel Carson
22. "The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible. In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world -- the very nature of its life. "
-- Rachel Carson 1962
23. "Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. "
-- Rachel Carson
24. "Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. "
-- George Washington Carver
25. "Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries."
-- Jimmy Carter
26. "It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever."
-- Jimmy Carter
27. "Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life. "
-- George Washington Carver
28. "The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; she never produces classes. "
-- Lydia Maria Child
29. "Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. "
-- Arthur C. Clarke
30. "The earth laughs in flowers. "
-- e.e. cummings
31. "All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child. "
-- Marie Curie
32. "Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on so support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship "
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero
33. "If I have learned nothing else in all these months in the woods, I have thoroughly learned to keep hands off the processes of nature."
-- Laura Lee Davidson
34. "Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. "
-- Michel de Montaigne
35. "Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature. "
-- Gerard De Nerval
36. "Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. "
-- Albert Einstein
37. "The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God."
-- Euclid
38. "Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
39. "A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. "
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
40. "Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them. "
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
41. "The method of nature: who could ever analyze it? "
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
42. "When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it "
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
43. "All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair. "
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
44. "All nature wears one universal grin. "
-- Henry Fielding
45. "If you poison the environment,the environment will poison you. "
-- Tony Follari
46. "Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint. "
-- Robert Frost
47. "Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. "
-- R. Buckminster Fuller
48. "Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun. "
-- Kahlil Gibran
49. "And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. "
-- Kahlil Gibran
50. "I believe in rain, in odd miracles, in the intelligence that allows terns and swallows to find their way across Earth. "
-- Paul Hawkins
51. "You can't just let nature run wild. "
-- Wally Hickel
52. "Nature yields her most profound secrets to the person who is determined to uncover them."
-- Napoleon Hill
53. "Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price. "
-- Napoleon Hill
54. "The supernatural is the natural not yet understood. "
-- Elbert Hubbard
55. "Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing."
-- Thomas H. Huxley
56. "There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. "
-- Thomas Jefferson
57. "Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness. "
-- Samuel Johnson
58. "I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. "
-- Miriam Makeba
59. "Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them "
-- A. A. Milne Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh
60. "In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks."
--John Muir
61. "Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. "
-- John Muir
62. "Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. "
-- John Muir
63. "Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts."
-- John Muir
64. "The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thought and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains."
-- John Muir
65. "Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. "
-- Alfred Bernhard Nobel
66. "A flower touches everyone's heart. "
-- Georgia O'Keefe
67. "Like water, be gentle and strong. Be gentle enough to follow the natural paths of the earth, and strong enough to rise up and reshape the world. "
-- Brenda Peterson
68. "You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature."
-- William Rotsler
69. "Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spend time wondering why nature is the way it is."
-- Carl Sagan
70. "If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty, and the fields would no longer be decked, out with little wildflowers."
-- Saint Therese of Lisieux
71. "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. "
-- William Shakespeare
72. "What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it."
-- Isaac Bashevis Singer
73. "See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all. "
-- Socrates
74. "A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows. "
-- St. Francis of Assisi
75. "Wildness can be a way of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope. "
-- Wallace Stenger
76. "The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. "
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
77. "Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence. "
-- Alfred Billings Street
78. "There are for starters, grandeur and silence, pure water and clean air. There is also the gift of distance … the chance to stand away from relationships and daily ritual … and the gift of energy. Wilderness infuses us with its own special brand of energy."
-- Lynn Thomas
79. "Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance."
-- Henry David Thoreau
80. "Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not. "
-- Henry David Thoreau upon the death of his brother
81. "Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. "
-- Henry David Thoreau
82. "The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival. "
-- Morris K. Udall
83. "The more we are separated from nature, the unhappier we get. "
-- Unknown
84. "You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder. "
-- Unknown
85. "The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her. "
-- Vincent Van Gogh
86. "Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions."
-- Mary Webb
87. "I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. "
-- Walt Whitman
88. "Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success. "
-- Oscar Wilde
89. "Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. "
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
90. "Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage "
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe