Gardeners are good at nurturing and they have a great quality of patience they're tender. They have to be persistent.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

It is strange that the years teach us patience that the shorter our time the greater our capacity for waiting.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity patience compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

I'm a parent especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich that's what you dip into.

Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.

There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no ' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean this is not just baby gloom.

Home life's great man. The kids are great happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.

It's a great mistake I think to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.

It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.

Self-preservation nature's first great law all the creatures except man doth awe.

Women by their nature are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Plot rules nor even poetry are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature of character of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

Nature's great masterpiece an elephant the only harmless great thing.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood bones and hair.