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.
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.
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.
Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.
Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature’s teachings.
I am an agnostic, even though I respect and am interested in all religions. If there’s something I believe in, it’s a mysterious energy; the one that fills the oceans during tides, the one that unites nature and beings.
There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little – the book of Nature.
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
Nothing is so beautiful as spring – when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.
Our 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.
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
I’m not a winner. My nature is not the nature of a winner.
Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‘Not Me,’ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‘Nature.’
During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
Men 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.
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.
I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
All great chefs have two things in common. First, they respect nature as the true artist, and they are just cooks. Second, everything that they do is an extension of them as a person.
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
I believe in God, Nature, Magic, and the spiritual healing of all holistic properties.
The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate… is a totalitarian’s dream.
That’s what nature meant us to do, breathe deep when we are stressed.
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!
We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.
For a long time, men weren’t respecting women. They weren’t understanding Mother Earth, Mother Nature, the Motherland, all the motherly stuff. And now we are.
Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
One can ascend to a higher development only by bringing rhythm and repetition into one’s life. Rhythm holds sway in all nature.
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.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.
The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.
A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
All the universe is full of the lives of perfect creatures.
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
Were 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.’
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.
If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature’s way of letting in only as much as we can handle.
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
Sound is the vocabulary of nature.
The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.
By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You’ve just got to keep moving. You can’t stop.
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
In football, even when you do your best on the pitch, you can win or lose. That is the nature of the game.
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
You can change the circumstances but you can never change man’s inner nature.
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
Nature’s my muse and it’s been my passion.
Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.
Vaccines and antibiotics have made many infectious diseases a thing of the past; we’ve come to expect that public health and modern science can conquer all microbes. But nature is a formidable adversary.
I don’t like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.