The truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Mahatma GandhiThe family is one of nature's masterpieces.
George SantayanaMan can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
Mahatma GandhiAll men by nature desire to know.
AristotleSecurity is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen KellerWe still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Albert EinsteinWe have to handover the earth, the air, the land and the water to the children at least as it was handed over to us.
Mahatma GandhiStupidity is something unshakable, nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it, it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
Gustave FlaubertOne touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William ShakespeareThere is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself in acts of bravery and heroism.
Alexander HamiltonMan is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Joseph AddisonWhat 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.
VoltaireJoy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Albert EinsteinHerb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.
Bob MarleyIn general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Benjamin FranklinNature hates calculators.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery girl should use what Mother Nature gave her, before Father Time takes it away.
Laurence J. PeterIf one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature's way.
AristotleI am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift, as to the spirit in which it is offered.
Robert Louis StevensonArt not only imitates nature but also completes its deficiencies.
AristotleA man's kiss is his signature.
Mae WestHuman 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.
Jane AustenThe ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.
William ShatnerBehold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Alexander PopeThey are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
Jane AustenMen's natures are alike, it is their habits that separate them.
ConfuciusA gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
William HazlittBy nature men are nearly alike, by practice they get to be wide apart.
ConfuciusIf a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David ThoreauNature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
Francis BaconHuman 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.
Leonardo da VinciMan's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Mahatma GandhiMountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
Nathaniel HawthorneWe should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
Mahatma GandhiEarth 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.
John LubbockIt always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.
Dave BarryNature can be modified by nurture, even dogs can cease to relish meat when they are trained to relish only vegetarian food.
Sai BabaHe who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Albert EinsteinAdopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo EmersonDesire makes man forget his real nature and reduces him to be status of a beast.
Sai BabaAn inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Washington IrvingLoss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
Marcus AureliusTo me, a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
Helen KellerEverything 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.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI say that habit is but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.
AristotleNature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
Benjamin DisraeliSo it is naturally with the male and the female, the one is superior the other inferior, the one governs the other is governed, and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.
AristotleIn the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
Richard M. NixonMany secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
Francis BaconThe savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
Eric HofferA man's nature runs either to herbs or to weeds, therefore let him seasonably water the one and destroy the other.
Francis BaconNature has no mercy at all. Nature says "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."
Maya AngelouVirtue is the strong stem of man's nature and music is the blossoming of virtue.
ConfuciusIf you're not a tree hugger then you're, a what, a tree hater?
Doug CouplandWhat are men to rocks and mountains?
Jane AustenBut I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
Alan WattsMoney has never made man happy nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has, the more one wants.
Benjamin FranklinIn all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
AristotleUs sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
Alice WalkerEverything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.
Bob MarleyMiracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
Saint AugustineForests, 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.
Orison Swett MardenNature has always had more force than education.
VoltaireIt is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse.
BuddhaNature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere and we are all apt to expect too much, but then if one scheme of happiness fails human nature turns to another, if the first calculation is wrong we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere...
Jane AustenMiracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
C. S. LewisRest 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.
John LubbockGood nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance, which is more amiable than beauty.
Joseph AddisonMen have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true and usually do arrive at the truth.
AristotleOur task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert EinsteinMusic produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
ConfuciusAll human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire.
AristotleThe search for truth is in one way hard, and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur.
AristotleNature does nothing uselessly.
AristotleAs in nature things move violently to their place and calmly in their place so virtue in ambition is violent in authority settled and calm.
Francis BaconWhat is art? Nature concentrated.
Honore de BalzacThe 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.
William JamesBut Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect and Nature ever seeks an end.
AristotleNature gives you the face you have at twenty, it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Coco ChanelThe beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
AristotleNature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
Gertrude SteinRace hate isn't human nature, race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
Orson WellesOh nature's noblest gift my grey goose quill Slave of my thoughts obedient to my will Torn from the parent bird to form a pen That mighty instrument of little men
Lord ByronI 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.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination nature is imagination itself.
William BlakeA happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaPainting from nature is not copying the object, it is realizing one's sensations.
Paul CezanneIf 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.
Fran LebowitzTo be happy we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
William HazlittNature is perfect.
William ShatnerNature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
John BurroughsIt is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.
Niels BohrAll is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
SophoclesEngland has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
E. M. ForsterThe pleasure and delight of knowledge and learning it far surpasseth all other in nature
Francis BaconIdeas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured human nature will cure itself perhaps.
Honore de BalzacThe deepest urge in human nature is "the desire to be important"
John DeweyNature is relentless and unchangeable and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
Galileo GalileiThere are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
Stephen HawkingI'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.
Christina AguileraIt is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
Deepak ChopraIn nature nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted bent in weird ways and they're still beautiful.
Alice WalkerIn nature there are neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.
Robert Green IngersollThus happiness depends as nature shows less on exterior things than most suppose.
William CowperThe way of the Creative works through change and transformation so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
Alexander PopeThe 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.
William WordsworthGravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.
Dave BarryYou may make some mistakes-but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.
Joel OsteenSighing that Nature formed but one such man and broke the die.
Lord ByronWe cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Francis BaconMother Nature clearly intended for us to get our food from the "patty" group which includes hamburgers fish sticks and McNuggets- foods that have had all of their organs safely removed.
Dave BarryIn the general course of human nature A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
Alexander HamiltonWe trifle when we assign limits to our desires since nature hath set none.
Christian Nestell BoveeNature holds the key to our aesthetic intellectual cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
E. O. WilsonTo prefer evil to good is not in human nature, and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
PlatoStudies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
Francis BaconIt appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
Henry David ThoreauNature when she invented manufactured and patented her authors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
Oliver Wendell HolmesTrue happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise
Joseph AddisonWe must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
Paul CezanneA perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.
Joseph AddisonIf 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.
Michel de MontaigneThe mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
Reinhold NiebuhrWater is the driving force of all nature.
Leonardo da VinciNature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
Henry David ThoreauIt 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.
Albert EinsteinNature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Blaise PascalCertainly it is the nature of extreme self-lovers as they will set an house on fire and it were but to roast their eggs.
Francis BaconI have no hostility to nature but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
Ralph Waldo EmersonYou must not be a bit of blotting paper absorbing all the passions and emotions all the joys and grief that the actress of Nature demonstrates of the stages of life.
Sai BabaWe are all full of weakness and errors, let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
VoltaireWe need a government alas because of the nature of humans.
P. J. O'RourkeFor those who intend to discover and to understand not to indulge in conjectures and soothsaying and rather than contrive imitation and fabulous worlds plan to look deep into the nature of the real world and to dissect it -- for them everything must be sought in things themselves.
Francis BaconCovetousness 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.
Michel de MontaigneThen not only custom but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice and that justice is equality.
PlatoAnd although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.
Alan WattsOur founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.
Paul RyanYou 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.
Franz KafkaIf the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature but by our institutions great is our sin.
Charles DarwinHuman values are born with man. They are not got from outside. Man in his ignorance is not aware of these values. when man sheds his ignorance he will experience his divine nature.
Sai BabaIt 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.
Lao TzuI lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
Paul CezanneThe psychical whatever its nature may be is itself unconscious.
Sigmund FreudNature 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.
Francois de La RochefoucauldI think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.
Henry RollinsNature never breaks her own laws.
Leonardo da VinciCaught 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.
Gustave FlaubertWe are by nature observers and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is the nature of desire not to be satisfied and most men live only for the gratification of it.
AristotleMan has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.
Henry MillerReally I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
Virginia WoolfI love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station through which God speaks to us every hour if we will only tune in.
George Washington CarverI have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
MichelangeloOur natures are a lot like oil mix us with anything else and we strive to swim on top.
Joan RiversMan today is trying to master every kind of knowledge but is unable to discover his own true nature.
Sai BabaIn the Spring I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
Mark TwainPerhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
Eleanor RooseveltWhat we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
C. S. LewisThe most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
Andre GideSubdue your appetites my dears and you've conquered human nature.
Charles DickensThe 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.
William ShatnerNature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
William ShakespeareRevenge is a kind of wild justice which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.
Francis BaconGod is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature and it has often been said by philosophers that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
Frank Lloyd WrightIt is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision to which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.
AristotleNature to be commanded must be obeyed.
Francis BaconIt is written on the arched sky, it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature, it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
John RuskinBecoming emancipated at 14 my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company Flower Films and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30 I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography and I want to take an art history class.
Drew BarrymoreOf all nature's gifts to the human race what is sweeter to a man than his children?
Marcus Tullius CiceroTo be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things, this is the nature of righteousness
ConfuciusIt is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
Anatole FranceOur nature consists in motion, complete rest is death.
Blaise PascalOne of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
Leo TolstoyDeath like birth is a secret of Nature.
Marcus AureliusThe 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.
W. Somerset MaughamAdapt or perish now as ever is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. WellsNature knows no pause in progress and development and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowOur most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst but the best of our nature.
Nathaniel HawthorneArt is a harmony parallel with nature.
Paul CezanneI don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me I guess.
Walt DisneyOur 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.
Marcus Tullius CiceroNature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said Let Newton be! and all was light!
Alexander PopePlace where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed, one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self. He returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self.
ConfuciusMy nature just changes.
Jimi HendrixThe Amen of nature is always a flower.
Oliver Wendell HolmesNature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
Anatole FranceThe world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated [i.e. mortal] body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature.
William BlakeAll 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.
John AdamsHow strange that nature does not knock and yet does not intrude!
Emily DickinsonWhen God is reflected as Nature the reflection becomes Maya.
Sai BabaYou have not found your place until all your faculties are roused and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
Orison Swett MardenMen may change their climate but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
Joseph AddisonIt is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits, and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.
AristotleSuffering is permanent obscure and dark And shares the nature of infinity.
William WordsworthTo be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
Henry David ThoreauOf moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
Thomas HuxleyI have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
Julius CaesarNature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAn 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.
John RuskinWere I called on to define very briefly the term Art I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation however accurate of what is in Nature entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
Edgar Allan PoeWhat a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy wasteful blundering low and horribly cruel work of nature!
Charles DarwinThe counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowI experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself and the paintings appear as in a dream.
Vincent Van GoghThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore guard accordingly and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus AureliusWhat 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.
Jacques Yves CousteauIn nature we never see anything isolated but everything in connection with something else which is before it beside it under it and over it.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe 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.
Thomas HuxleyA 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.
Thomas JeffersonThe best remedy for those who are afraid lonely or unhappy is to go outside somewhere where they can be quiet alone with the heavens nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
Anne FrankThe least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Blaise PascalIt is nature's law that rivers wind, trees grow wood, and given the opportunity women work iniquity.
BuddhaNature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Arthur SchopenhauerOil on water a secret communicated to a base man a gift given to a worthy receiver and scriptural instruction given to an intelligent man spread out by virtue of their nature.
ChanakyaWhere is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Henry Ward BeecherNature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
Jean-Jacques RousseauIt 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.
Vincent Van GoghNature scarcely ever gives us the very best, for that we must have recourse to art.
Baltasar GracianWhen 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.
Alanis MorissetteThe learned is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more.
Alexander PopeThere 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.
Henry David ThoreauI am a leader by default only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
Desmond TutuTo become an able and successful man in any profession three things are necessary nature study and practice.
Henry Ward BeecherMistakes 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.
Salvador DaliI think I have a dualistic nature.
Bob DylanMy aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
Edward HopperOur 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.
Leo TolstoyIt is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man.
ConfuciusThe human understanding from its peculiar nature easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds
Francis BaconWhatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
Thomas AquinasWhere man is not nature is barren.
William BlakeArt is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Friedrich NietzscheCamping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.
Dave BarryMy Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads.
Francis BaconA vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
Tennessee WilliamsYou can't just let nature run wild.
Walt DisneyI also became close to nature and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
James DeanWhen nature has work to be done she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf 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.
Thomas HuxleyHe does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.
William ShakespeareThey are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
Francis BaconIt 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.
Virginia WoolfSelf-preservation is the first law of nature.
Samuel Butler