708 Quotes Found
"I have a bit of a rebellious nature."
"It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal."
"I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop."
"Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!"
"There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature."
"The fans know what's happened to me over the past couple of years. I lost my family. I pretty much got devastated financially and the fans know that I've had some hard times - and that's the nature of loyal fans. They want to see the people that they love and believe in get back on their feet."
"Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves."
"The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself."
"Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does or that his soul might die without his knowing it?"
"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."
"Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language."
"Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow."
"The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God."
"French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me."
"Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature."
"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."
"Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving."
"Human nature is what Heaven supplies."
"I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I'm not thinking about the camera and that it's second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it."
"Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles."
"When I get recognized for 'Twilight, ' it's usually a teenage girl, and they're usually really loud. So it certainly feels like I get recognized the most from that, but it could just be because of the nature of how vocal those fans are."
"I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources."
"Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die."
"Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal."
"Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that."
"Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality."
"There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century."
"I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God."
"I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own."
"In the state of nature profit is the measure of right."
"The scientist does not study nature because it is useful he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful."
"Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet."
"We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality."
"Human nature is above all things lazy."
"Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature."
"There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience."
"Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself."
"I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within."
"Nature abhors a vacuum."
"Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious."
"I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature."
"A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art."
"For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not."
"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul."
"The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it."
"Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature."
"Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me."
"Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes."
"There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain."
"If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you."
"Nature chooses who will be transgender individuals don't choose this."
"The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels."
"I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature."
"The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body."
"Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work."
"We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information."
"Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature."
"Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature."
"Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you."
"It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness."
"To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century."
"If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it."
"Hidden nature is secret God."
"A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule."
"It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail."
"The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation."
"Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe."
"Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need."
"The skull is nature's sculpture."
"I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers."
"The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling."
"Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters."
"The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature."
"There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive."
"Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent."
"I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God."
"I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed."
"As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside."
"Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything."
"We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous."
"There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market."
"People have always wanted to be recognized, and that's human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they simply want to be visible."
"Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation."
"English majors understand human nature better than economists do."
"Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority."
"I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed."
"Custom is second nature."
"I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature."
"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea."
"Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures."
"A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other."
"To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love."
"Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes."
"Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead."
"I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against the law of nature."
"I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed."
"Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities."
"The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer."
"Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us."
"Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature."
"A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn."
"Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd."
"Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve."
"Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings."
"Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature."
"Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal."
"Sound is the vocabulary of nature."
"I'd love to go back to Europe in the '20s and '30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement, and Freud and Jung, and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The whole nature of reality was changing and being challenged."
"A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have."
"The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life."
"Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing."
"Human nature is not black and white but black and grey."
"I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another."
"The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature."
"There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature."
"I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person that's the nature of the work I do."
"No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal."
"I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal."
"The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him."
"A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!"
"I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something I think that's human nature."
"Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film."
"I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live."
"It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door."
"What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place."
"The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with."
"I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature."
"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."
"In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope."
"Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?"
"Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man."
"Nature is the master of talents genius is the master of nature."
"All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws."
"I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin."
"A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star."
"Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection."
"If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature."
"Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature."
"Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another."
"Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere."
"No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious."
"One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls."
"Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well."
"The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages."
"Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us."
"It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave."
"Nature is a petrified magic city."
"We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there."
"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 body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it."
"Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work."
"You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses."
"It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department."
"The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller."
"The beautiful spring came and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also."
"There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another."
"Every corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to be true."
"The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature."
"Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone."
"A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man."
"I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being."
"We don't do things we aren't good at by nature. I wouldn't play basketball because I'm only 5' 1". Find what you enjoy - whether it's racing, flying a helicopter, being a doctor, or stitching clothes together. Once you've done that, you have the passion you need."
"Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we can't get out of it if we would."
"I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have."
"An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature."
"High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces."
"Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10, 000-year epochs."
"It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves."
"It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self."
"To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano."
"In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled."
"God created the world the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there."
"There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power."
"None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath."
"Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin."
"Your nature is the Buddha."
"To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion."
"To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature."
"Nature can do more than physicians."
"I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before."
"Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God."
"Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common."
"It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it."
"The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere."
"He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life."
"When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws."
"I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being."
"When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me."
"The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor."
"Be truthful, nature only sides with truth."
"Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected."
"Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it."
"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."
"Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature."
"Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature."
"God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?"
"Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man."
"The nature of rumor is known to all."
"Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature."
"This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games."
"That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not."
"What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale."
"I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature."
"Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant the only harmless great thing."
"Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters."
"There is a great deal of human nature in man."
"Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense."
"We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying."
"It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'"
"We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that."
"Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial."
"Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it."
"Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean."
"No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people."
"Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans."
"Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man."
"I know I'm not known as method. By nature I'm not a brooder. What I continue to use is a mixture of the English school, which is traditionally outside-in, and the more American way of working from the inside out."
"That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature."
"By nature I'm not a brooder."
"Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process."
"Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires."
"There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it."
"I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office."
"He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her."
"Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself."
"Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature."
"Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers, ' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding."
"To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature."
"We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist."
"I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial."
"An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language."
"Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting."
"There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting."
"Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do."
"I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it's so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean, there's no noise other than nature - and it's so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind."
"People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools."
"I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide."
"The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited."
"The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only."
"Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven."
"People must help one another it is nature's law."
"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive."
"We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none."
"To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth."
"To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature."
"Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances."
"The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature."
"A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion."
"It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse."
"Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence."
"It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait."
"Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen."
"Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal."
"Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature."
"No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies."
"If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow."
"Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements."
"I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."
"No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings."
"I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature."
"But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it."
"Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature."
"Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all."
"The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature."
"Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
"When I'm off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It's a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that can be anything - going for a walk in nature, being in silence, burning incense."
"Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature."
"America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think."
"Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye, looking on, finds its own."
"All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one."
"Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves."
"Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God."
"Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them."
"Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest."
"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature and that man will be myself."
"Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant."
"The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything."
"It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature."
"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."
"I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity."
"The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it."
"I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature."
"We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature."
"Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors."
"Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured."
"The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone."
"Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man."
"I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid."
"In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature."
"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive."
"Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others."
"The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature that is to say, of his own life."
"Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left."
"There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes."
"The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird."
"Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes."
"There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions."
"Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great."
"My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature."
"Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair."
"The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure."
"If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day."
"Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake."
"Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul."
"Man's heart away from nature becomes hard."
"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with."
"If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression."
"Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job."
"Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself."
"I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum."
"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."
"The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it."
"Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates."
"Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods."
"The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it."
"It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual."
"Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit."
"My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything."
"Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away."
"All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit."
"I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory."
"By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments."
"There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself in no wise hath she need of an author."
"I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all."
"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."
"Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else."
"The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature."
"The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul."
"Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands."
"The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding."
"To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man."
"By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all."
"Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him."
"Gossip is nature's telephone."
"I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness."
"The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery."
"What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it."
"You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life."
"Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient."
"Everything in excess is opposed to nature."
"Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature."
"There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress."
"No speech can stain what is noble by nature."
"Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable."
"Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer."
"The Amen of nature is always a flower."
"Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature."
"I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment."
"Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity."
"I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things."
"If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God."
"If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker."
"Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit."
"Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo."
"The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill."
"It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy."
"Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage."
"Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them."
"Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of."
"They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life."
"I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid."
"It is the nature of babies to be in bliss."
"All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child."
"Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s."
"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function."
"England has always been disinclined to accept human nature."
"What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on."
"If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy."
"Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw."
"Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use."
"The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall."
"Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature."
"The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach."
"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."
"And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men."
"It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own."
"Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies."
"You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back."
"Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful."
"Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments."
"Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not."
"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."
"If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it."
"Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature."
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."
"In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it."
"To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things."
"It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
"The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more."
"I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature."
"To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature."
"Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little."
"Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves."
"You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid."
"The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual."
"Painting from nature is not copying the object it is realizing one's sensations."
"The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding."
"It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion."
"Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil."
"Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws."
"Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs."
"There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature."
"The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man."
"Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave it is not in his nature."
"If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words."
"Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve."
"There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish."
"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."
"Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices."
"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing."
"I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others."
"For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations."
"The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us."
"As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power."
"The world is too much with us late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours."
"Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating."
"Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer."
"Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax."
"I love not man the less, but Nature more."
"Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry."
"Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society."
"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself."
"Race hate isn't human nature race hate is the abandonment of human nature."
"Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished."
"In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness."
"Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness."
"It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win."
"Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things."
"Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live."
"Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason."
"Nature abhors annihilation."
"Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else."
"Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth."
"Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality."
"Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature."
"The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself."
"Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales."
"Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity."
"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."
"Self-preservation is the first law of nature."
"Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?"
"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed."
"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."
"A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils."
"The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule."
"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."
"Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive."
"Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours."
"You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing."
"Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another."
"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences."
"What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!"
"Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being."
"Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature."
"Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good."
"Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?"
"To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult."
"There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations."
"Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction."
"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."
"Nature never did betray the heart that loved her."
"The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious."
"It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error."
"In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful."
"Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."
"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."
"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures."
"Nature never breaks her own laws."
"I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream."
"A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office."
"What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat."
"The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is."
"Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism."
"Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds."
"It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people."
"It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature."
"But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing."
"Human nature is not of itself vicious."
"As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer."
"In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will."
"Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within."
"Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman."
"As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others."
"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature."
"For greed all nature is too little."
"To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people."
"A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature."
"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"
"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous."
"The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour."
"We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings."
"There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it."
"To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature."
"There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism."
"To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice."
"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased."
"According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another."
"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead."
"I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered."
"The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man."
"You can't just let nature run wild."
"Water is the driving force of all nature."
"I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure."
"To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart."
"In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it."
"Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear."
"All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable."
"It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them."
"When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic."
"Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation."
"The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."
"Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price."
"It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial."
"Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them."
"I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature."
"I think I have a dualistic nature."
"We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature."
"I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it."
"My nature just changes."
"Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty."
"Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature."
"External nature is only internal nature writ large."
"It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature."
"There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature."
"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."
"To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain."
"The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected."
"Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution."
"What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature."
"There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance."
"It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins."
"Nature is not human hearted."
"He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature."
"The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit."
"Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand."
"For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all."
"Nature does nothing in vain."
"Man is by nature a political animal."
"The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?"
"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."
"We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state."
"Nature hates calculators."
"I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet."
"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same."
"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation."
"In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires."
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
"Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them."
"Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time."
"Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature."
"Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her."
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."
"Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature."
"Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear."
"A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser."
"It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature."
"Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature."
"We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us."
"Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift."
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."
"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks."
"People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely."
"Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out."
"My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful."
"It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life."
"I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree."
"We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways."
"Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy."
"The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing."
"The groves were God's first temples."
"When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck."
"My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view."
"Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom."
"Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams."
"The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more."
"What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else."
"There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before."
"Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art."
"Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations."
"Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light."
"Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer."
"I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own."
"In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries no man can ignore all of them."
"The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world."
"I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets."
"There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind."
"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life."
"In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me."
"Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup."
"Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!"
"Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend."
"Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing."
"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."
"It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book."
"I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods."
"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."
"Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains."
"Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature."
"Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared."
"Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger."
"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do."
"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake."
"The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony."
"Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them."
"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands."
"You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet."
"Birds have wings they're free they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy."
"Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass."
"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"
"Nature is wont to hide herself."
"Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn."
"Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing."
"Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature."
"For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours."
"The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only."
"The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides."
"A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine."
"And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns."
"I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do."
"I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself."
"A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart."
"Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."
"Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem."
"Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder."
"Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush."
"I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings."
"Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself."
"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."
"Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space."
"Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence."
"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."
"We cannot command Nature except by obeying her."
"In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia."
"We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones."
"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."
"There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew."
"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."
"The poetry of the earth is never dead."
"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."
"How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!"
"Winter is nature's way of saying, 'Up yours.'"
"We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts."
"Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit."
"To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment."
"Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines."
"Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth."
"The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks."
"All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was."
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."
"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."
"Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man."
"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."
"Everything is blooming most recklessly if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night."
"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."
"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."
"Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet."
"Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed."
"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg."
"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
"The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful."
"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars."
"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books."
"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."
"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste."
"Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction."
"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."
"When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars."
"Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?"
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."
"It is not light that we need, but fire it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."
"Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby."
"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."
"The mountains are calling and I must go."
"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order."
"For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver."
"A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water."
"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly."
"The bluebird carries the sky on his back."
"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine."
"Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'"
"I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind."
"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."
"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
"If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way."
"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."
"When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it."
"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."
"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
"Earth laughs in flowers."
"To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug."
"Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher."
"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."
"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."
"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."
"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."
"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."