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Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world.
— Patti Smith
The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
— Galileo Galilei
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
— Saint Augustine
I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle. It's important to feel good with your body. The body is extremely important. If you feel good, you have more energy in your singing.
— Cecilia Bartoli
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
— Hannah Arendt
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.
— George Crumb
When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring.
— Madeleine M. Kunin
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
— Epictetus
The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it.
— Christopher Columbus
I can't go against my nature because I am what I am. I don't try to be anyone different to who I am.
— Brian McDermott
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
— Walt Disney
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.
— Alexander Hamilton
My height doesn't define my skill set. To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature - and I try to bring that on a daily basis.
— Russell Wilson
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
— Mahatma Gandhi
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
— William Wordsworth
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
— Anatole France
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.
— D. H. Lawrence
The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
— Alexander Pope
With the coming of spring, I am calm again.
— Gustav Mahler
Nature is wont to hide herself.
— Heraclitus
Moonlight is sculpture.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
The fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors. The sun is out, you get warmth on your skin but there's the coolness of the breeze. It's really comfortable.
— Ricky Skaggs
Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health.
— Paul Stamets
Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We must use the wrath of nature as our teacher.
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
Nature surrounds us, from parks and backyards to streets and alleyways. Next time you go out for a walk, tread gently and remember that we are both inhabitants and stewards of nature in our neighbourhoods.
— David Suzuki
The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.
— James St. James
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
— Alexander Pope
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
— Lord Byron
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.
— Alfred Austin
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
— Antonio Porchia
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
— Blaise Pascal
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
— Charles Lindbergh
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
— Claude Monet
The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.
— Diogenes
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
— Don DeLillo
What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
— Emile M. Cioran
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
— Francis Bacon
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
— Hal Borland
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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.
— Jean Paul
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.
— Neil Young
Nature is a petrified magic city.
— Novalis
These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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.
— Ruth Bernhard
He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
— Samuel Johnson
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
— Thomas Merton
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
— Truman Capote
Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
— Mary Webb
My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.
— John McGraw
Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.
— Daniel Boone
There's no night without stars.
— Andre Norton
We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.
— Ruth St. Denis
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.
— William Bartram
Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the storms may be.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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.
— Edmund Burke
In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, 'Do as You promised.'
— Charles Spurgeon
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
— Plato
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.
— Franz Kafka
Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.
— Bernard Meltzer
Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.
— Fran Lebowitz
A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.
— Charles Ives
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
— Alan Watts
For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.
— Bridget Riley
Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.
— Louie Schwartzberg
Great art picks up where nature ends.
— Marc Chagall
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. 
— Coco Chanel
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.
— Calvin Coolidge
Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.
— George W. Bush
People is, I think, it's their nature - some people's nature, in a way, to be angry or jealous or just spiteful about somebody else's blessings.
— Jill Scott
At Baptism, I received grace - that quality that makes me share in the very nature of God.
— Mother Angelica
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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.
— Ansel Adams
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
— Marcus Aurelius
It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
— Taylor Caldwell
Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
— Galileo Galilei
Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.
— Richard Rohr
God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.
— Saint Basil
Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which we scientists draw our nourishment and energy. And also, learn the math. Math is the language of nature, so we have to learn this language.
— Michio Kaku
As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer senses; and the mind is called the inner sense because it is inside. But the distinction between inner and outer is only with reference to the body; in truth, there is neither inner nor outer. The mind's nature is to remain pure like ether.
— Ramana Maharshi
The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.
— Ada Lovelace
By nature, I really am a fairly bouncy and sunny individual.
— Julie Andrews
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.
— Jimmy Carter
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
— Tacitus
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
— Edmund Burke
Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
— John Berger
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
— Samuel Johnson
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
— Werner Heisenberg
Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.
— Pierre Curie
The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
— Muhammad Iqbal
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.
— Gustave Courbet
For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.
— Christopher Dawson
It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.
— David Hackworth
I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.
— Caspar David Friedrich
It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.
— Elvis Presley
One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
— Jack London
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.
— Henri Matisse
The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.
— Rachael Taylor
In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence from the material world; women, by their nature, were supposedly rooted in this latter, baser realm.
— Margaret Wertheim
You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ we cannot halt our own moral slide.
— Charles R. Swindoll
If nothing else, the act of reaching a milestone often serves to reveal a superstar's true nature.
— Stephen Rodrick
I am not a religious person myself, but I did look for nature. I had spent my first sabbatical in New York City. Looked for something different for the second one. Europe and the U.S. didn't really feel enticing because I knew them too well. So Asia it was. The most beautiful landscapes I had seen in Asia were Sri Lanka and Bali.
— Stefan Sagmeister
We live in a very chaotic world that sometimes we - it just seems like a mess. One of the reasons why we listen to music, and to great classical music in particular, is that everything is in an order and in a place and has a beauty that you see in nature, that you see and that people look for when they look for God.
— Joshua Bell
I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains.
— John Muir
Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?
— Alexander the Great
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
— George MacDonald
Winter is nature's way of saying, 'Up yours.'
— Robert Byrne
Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
— Laurence J. Peter
Race hate isn't human nature race hate is the abandonment of human nature. 
— Orson Welles
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
— Nikita Khrushchev
Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
— Richard P. Feynman
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.
— Joseph Addison
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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.
— Michel de Montaigne
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.
— Albert Einstein
We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.
— Kofi Annan
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.
— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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.
— William Wordsworth
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.
— Aristotle
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
— Thomas Aquinas
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
— Marcus Aurelius
What 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. Lewis
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
— Robert South
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.
— Camille Paglia
An 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 Irving
Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.
— Jessamyn West
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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.
— Auguste Rodin
Nature does not proceed by leaps and bounds.
— Carolus Linnaeus
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.
— John Coltrane
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.
— Thomas Aquinas
Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.
— Thomas Guthrie
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.
— Charles Mackay
Custom is second nature.
— Saint Augustine
It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
— Muhammad Iqbal
If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.
— Henri Poincare
But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.
— Jose Marti
A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.
— Rudolf Otto
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.
— Edward Thorndike
Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.
— Edward Thorndike
Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.
— Abraham Lincoln
Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.
— Susanne Langer
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
— Sidney Hook
It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
— Saint Teresa of Avila
Only the brave know how to forgive it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. 
— Laurence Sterne
It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.
— Franz Liszt
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
— Bertrand Russell
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
— Auguste Rodin
I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile.
— John Shelby Spong
If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
— Luther Burbank
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
— H. P. Lovecraft
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
— Philip James Bailey
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.
— John Keats
There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by. 
— William C. Bryant
It is a holy blessing to be born with the exquisite qualities of a daughter of God. Women of God, both old and young, are spiritual and sensitive, tender and gentle. They have a kind, nurturing nature. This is your inheritance. Never belittle the gifts God has given to you. Develop the divinity that is within you.
— Margaret D. Nadauld
This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.
— Richard Jefferies
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
— Helen Keller
Birds have wings they're free they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy. 
— Roger Tory Peterson
While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.
— Ethan Allen
All nature is but art unknown to thee.
— Alexander Pope
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.
— Thomas a Kempis
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Nature chooses who will be transgender individuals don't choose this. 
— Mercedes Ruehl
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
— Samuel Johnson
Now that I'm older, I have a much better appreciation of nature, and I love being alone.
— Gia Coppola
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.
— Dominic Monaghan
When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!
— Jose Rizal
We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature. 
— Voltaire
Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?
— Solomon Short
The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.
— Polykarp Kusch
I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
— Ella Maillart
The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.
— Joni Mitchell
If we could establish a deep abiding relationship with nature, we would never kill an animal for our appetite; we would never harm, vivisect, a monkey, a dog, a guinea pig for our benefit. We would find other ways to heal our wounds, heal our bodies.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. 
— Joseph Conrad
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
— Mark Twain
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
— Will Durant
Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
— Luigi Pirandello
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
— Abraham Maslow
Envy is human nature.
— Monica Bellucci
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
— Rudyard Kipling
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.
— H. G. Wells
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.
— Gary Chapman
We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I quickly realized that shopping on Amazon had made the idea of parking my car and going into a store feel like an outrageous imposition on my time and good nature.
— Maria Semple
The 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 Pope
The landscape painter must walk in the fields with a humble mind. No arrogant man was ever permitted to see Nature in all her beauty.
— John Constable
Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.
— Annie Jump Cannon
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
— Aristotle
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
— Victor Hugo
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.
— Leo Tolstoy
I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.
— Steve Lacy
I have a bit of a rebellious nature.
— John Cusack
He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.
— Galileo Galilei
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
— Matthew Arnold
Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues.
— Lene Hau
I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.
— Tom Stoppard
And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.
— Thomas Campbell
I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
— Emily Bronte
I'm a diplomat by nature. I help find the middle ground. I crack a joke and use humour to help resolve potentially vicious situations quickly. It gets things in perspective and helps everyone to see that things aren't as bad as they seem.
— Ronnie Wood
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
— Ambrose Bierce
There is the sky, which is all men's together.
— Euripides
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. 
— John Ruskin
Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
Military deployments have never been something to enjoy, but the consequence of the actions, the shared nature of the sacrifices, and the nobility of the cause are invigorating. To be clear, I'm not talking about the killing and the death; rather, the sense of purpose that pervades every action, reaction, and outcome.
— Pete Hegseth
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
— John Archibald Wheeler
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
— John Dewey
There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.
— John Mayer
Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.
— Marianne Williamson
I like to be grounded by nature, go hiking... go to an isolated island that's not glamorous and touristy at all.
— Cote de Pablo
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
— Baruch Spinoza
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
— Stephen Hawking
That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.
— John Joly
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
— Henry David Thoreau
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.
— William James
I slow down when hiking. The rhythm of nature is more leisurely. The sun comes up, it moves across the sky, and you begin to synchronize to that rhythm.
— John Mackey
Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. 
— Kin Hubbard
The groves were God's first temples.
— William C. Bryant
The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.
— William C. Bryant
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
— Noam Chomsky
We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
— Ellsworth Huntington
Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation.
— Charles B. Rangel
From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature.
— Ahmed Zewail
The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
Art will never be able to exist without nature.
— Pierre Bonnard
Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.
— Gottfried Leibniz
To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.
— Alex Campbell
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
— Denis Diderot
Human nature is above all things lazy.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities.
— Alison Gopnik
Ever since I was a small child, I've had this feeling - it's in my nature, and so it's not even pretentious - that if everyone's going one way, I will go the other, just by some kind of spirit of defiance.
— Charlotte Rampling
I think African Americans are resilient and hustlers by nature. I think they need to understand that you can take that hustle to the boardroom, but it has to be an education process.
— Daymond John
I have pets, but they're the really ordinary sort - yellow Labrador, tabby cat, white rabbit, a few goldfish - that kind of stuff. Nothing very... extravagant or unusual or exotic, but I find, in terms of inspiration, Mother Nature is just it.
— Graeme Base
By nature, I am a low-key person and like being behind the camera.
— Rohit Shetty
The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft. 
— Walter Gropius
How are the faculties of man to be best developed and his happiness secured? The state of a king is not favorable to this, nor the state of the noble and rich men of the earth. All this is artificial life, the inventions of vanity and grasping ambition, by which we have spoiled the man of nature and of pure, simple, and undistorted impulses.
— William Godwin
We are a family that lives probably 90 percent on wild game. We're certainly working our way toward 100 percent self-sufficient. Looking to raise chickens for eggs, things of that nature, start a garden. We enjoy the simple life.
— Shawn Michaels
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
— Sydney Smith
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
— Herbert Spencer
Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.
— Olivia Newton-John
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.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
— Francis Bacon
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.
— Marian Anderson
Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.
— Archilochus
Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.
— Adolf Loos
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.
— Hamlin Garland
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
— Werner Heisenberg
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
— Baruch Spinoza
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
— Doug Larson
Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
— Gustav Mahler
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.
— John Fowles
One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.
— Loren Eiseley
Nature abhors annihilation.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
— Havelock Ellis
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
— Orison Swett Marden
I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.
— Roger Tory Peterson
Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.
— Bryan Procter
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.
— William Bartram
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
— Albert Camus
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.
— Georg Cantor
I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.
— Alfred Sisley
It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
— Tacitus
For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it.
— Martin Buber
It seems to me like Mother Nature's mercy and forgiveness have run dry, as we ceaselessly abuse her and take her for granted in order for us to continue our addiction to using fossil fuels. I've gotta say, I don't blame her. Not one bit.
— Gloria Reuben
We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
— Sylvia Earle
Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we can do is make the best of the hands we have been dealt.
— Julian Baggini
If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature... that's what takes a long time to learn.
— Ron White
In interior decorating, the pig's actually quite there. It's used in paint for the texture, but also for the glossiness. In sandpaper, bone glue is actually the glue between the sand and the paper. And then in paintbrushes, hairs are used because, apparently, they're very suitable for making paintbrushes because of their hard-wearing nature.
— Christien Meindertsma
One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.
— Pierre Bonnard
I do love nature, but I don't suppose I'd spent more time in zoos as a child than anyone else!
— Andy Serkis
No matter how much you've done before, you wonder if there will be a light at the end of this particular tunnel. It's the nature of the beast, and it's a part of what compels us. Every movie is a new lesson you learn making your way through it.
— R. J. Cutler
Whoever dedicates his life to searching out particular connections of nature will spontaneously be confronted with the question how they harmoniously fit into the whole.
— Werner Heisenberg
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
— Harold Coffin
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
— Isaac Asimov
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
— Malcolm de Chazal
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
— Desmond Tutu
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.
— Lao Tzu
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.
— Virginia Woolf
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.
— James Thurber
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.
— Henry David Thoreau
I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?
— James Thomson
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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.
— Richard Owen
I 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 Carver
The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.
— Elias Hicks
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
— Edward Hopper
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
— Jonathan Swift
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.
— Albert Einstein
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
— Alexander Pope
Land really is the best art.
— Andy Warhol
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
— Francis Bacon
Nature is not human hearted.
— Lao Tzu
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
— Thomas Browne
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
— Thomas Carlyle
As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
— Virgil
Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.
— William C. Bryant
I am two with nature.
— Woody Allen
Nature is the master of talents genius is the master of nature. 
— Josiah Gilbert Holland
Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.
— Bjork
Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.
— Antoine Lavoisier
I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
— Alan Hovhaness
All the universe is full of the lives of perfect creatures.
— Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.
— Gilbert White
Nature was my kindergarten.
— William Christopher Handy
I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
— Muhammad Iqbal
Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself.
— Paul Muni
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.
— Henry Cantwell Wallace
He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
In nature there are few sharp lines.
— A. R. Ammons
Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.
— Robert Smithson
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.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
— E. F. Schumacher