Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.
~By Daniel Boone ~
We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
~By Clarence Day ~
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
~By Sydney Smith ~
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.
~By Aristotle ~
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
~By Camille Paglia ~
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.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
~By Evan Esar ~
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.
~By Leo Tolstoy ~
No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.
~By Ellsworth Huntington ~
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.
~By Giorgio Vasari ~
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
~By Thomas Mann ~
A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
~By Louis Nizer ~
Law is born from despair of human nature.
~By Jose Ortega y Gasset ~
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
~By Marianne Moore ~
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
~By Garrison Keillor ~
All nature wears one universal grin.
~By Henry Fielding ~
The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.
~By Kevin Kelly ~
The beauty of this country and what people participate in is the competitive nature that we allow to exist and the fact is that we are better because we have great competitors.
~By Lee Scott ~
In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.
~By James Gunn ~
The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.
~By Randy Neugebauer ~
I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.
~By Rebecca Miller ~
Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.
~By Warren De la Rue ~
Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
~By Mary Webb ~
We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~
To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.
~By Edward Thorndike ~
Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
~By Henry Taylor ~
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.
~By Denis Diderot ~
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.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
~By Alexander Pope ~
The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.
~By Drew Endy ~
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
~By Voltaire ~
Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.
~By Rosamund Pike ~
Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.
~By Arthur Keith ~
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.
~By Henri Poincare ~
On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism.
~By Alfred Russel Wallace ~
I hate how I've had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We've had some issues, but that is the nature of business.
~By Sheryl Crow ~
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
~By William Cowper ~
It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.
~By Svetlana Alliluyeva ~
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
~By William Shakespeare ~
I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.
~By Ella R. Bloor ~
Nature does not proceed by leaps and bounds.
~By Carolus Linnaeus ~
Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience.
~By Trofim Lysenko ~
Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
~By Joan Rivers ~
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.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
~By Edith Hamilton ~
I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
Great art picks up where nature ends.
~By Marc Chagall ~
I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
~By Isak Dinesen ~
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.
~By Christy Turlington ~
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.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
~By Edward Hopper ~
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
~By Denis Diderot ~
Man is nature's sole mistake.
~By William Gilbert ~
In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres.
~By Hans Frank ~
Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.
~By William Law ~
To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature.
~By Frederick Soddy ~
But also, it's a wonderful thing for children to see the birthing of puppies, to see nature at its best when it works and to have the experience of the puppies.
~By Erika Slezak ~
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
~By Leo Tolstoy ~
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
~By Richard Dawkins ~
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.
~By Gustave Courbet ~
Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.
~By Alfred Marshall ~
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
~By Joseph Addison ~
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.
~By James Whistler ~
Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. But God as my witness, I am going to try to do everything I can to keep this ass together for as long as I possibly can - without going against nature.
~By Zoe Saldana ~
It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal.
~By Edward Thorndike ~
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 Joseph Addison ~
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for her because she is so weary of having all her desires satisfied.
~By Gustave Moreau ~
I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?
~By Vida Blue ~
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
~By Christopher Morley ~
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.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.
~By Vladimir Kramnik ~
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate the inquiries relating to the several parts of man's nature.
~By Richard Owen ~
Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
~By Joseph Addison ~
To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.
~By Thomas Babington ~
I feel particularly close to them, because I am now out in the universe. I'm in a position to see nature from another point of view, to be outside the earth and see the big picture.
~By Story Musgrave ~
I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these drugs that they give you that will lead you to heart surgery and things of that nature.
~By Merle Haggard ~
The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
~By Zora Neale Hurston ~
One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.
~By Maureen Dowd ~
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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.
~By Charles Dickens ~
By competent evidence, is meant such as the nature of the thing to be proved requires; and by satisfactory evidence, is meant that amount of proof, which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind, beyond any reasonable doubt.
~By Simon Greenleaf ~
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
~By Woody Allen ~
Inherently participatory in nature, Community Video focusing on using video to enable communities to communicate amongst themselves as well as with others.
~By Ben Edwards ~
The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.
~By Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ~
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.
~By Peter Lynch ~
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil.
~By Trofim Lysenko ~
'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political.
~By Seth MacFarlane ~
For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.
~By Ann Druyan ~
Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
~By Edgar Rice Burroghs ~
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