Man 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 AddisonA politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
Hubert H. HumphreyWhat 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.
VoltaireHerb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.
Bob MarleyHuman 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 AustenBehold 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 AustenMountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
Nathaniel HawthorneNow I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Walt WhitmanYou and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
Alan WattsEverything 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.
BuddhaThere 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 AustenWhat is art? Nature concentrated.
Honore de BalzacIdeas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured human nature will cure itself perhaps.
Honore de BalzacThe 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 PopeMr. Collins was not a sensible man and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society.
Jane AustenIf the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature but by our institutions great is our sin.
Charles DarwinPerhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
Eleanor RooseveltIt 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.
AristotleBecoming 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 BarrymoreWe must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund BurkeOne of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
Leo TolstoyOur most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst but the best of our nature.
Nathaniel HawthorneNature 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.
Desiderius ErasmusThe subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Francis BaconPlace 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.
ConfuciusThe 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 BlakeAnd out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature moulding men.
Alfred Lord TennysonWhen 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 MardenIt 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.
AristotleWe're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.
Charlie SheenWhat a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy wasteful blundering low and horribly cruel work of nature!
Charles DarwinThe chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise are good nature truth good sense and good breeding
Joseph AddisonA 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 FrankIt is nature's law that rivers wind, trees grow wood, and given the opportunity women work iniquity.
BuddhaNature scarcely ever gives us the very best, for that we must have recourse to art.
Baltasar GracianMutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature
Joseph AddisonIt is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Edmund BurkeOur 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 TolstoyThe human understanding from its peculiar nature easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds
Francis BaconThe nature of the food determines the nature of one' s thoughts feelings and actions.
Sai Baba