- I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.
- Jacqueline Bisset on Nature
- Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
- Honore De Balzac on Nature
- If 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 Huxley on Nature
- If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.
- Jon Meacham on Nature
- If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.
- Alex Noble on Nature
- If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
- Julian Assange on Nature
- If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.
- Havelock Ellis on Nature
- If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.
- John B. S. Haldane on Nature
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
- If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.
- Kurt Vonnegut on Nature
- 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 on Nature
- If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin on Nature
- If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
- Eleonora Duse on Nature
- If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
- Eleanora Duse on Nature
- If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.
- Edward Hopper on Nature
- If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
- Reinhold Niebuhr on Nature
- If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
- Charlotte Bronte on Nature
- If 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 Lebowitz on Nature
- If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.
- Satish Kumar on Nature
- If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.
- Alex Trebek on Nature
- If 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 Montaigne on Nature
- If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.
- Thomas Carlyle on Nature
- If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
- Carl Sagan on Nature
- In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
- George Eliot on Nature
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
- In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
- In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Nature
- In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
- Benjamin Franklin on Nature
- In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries no man can ignore all of them.
- Aldo Leopold on Nature
- In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences.
- Robert Green Ingersoll on Nature
- In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on Nature
- In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
- Alice Walker on Nature
- 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 on Nature
- 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 on Nature
- 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 on Nature
- 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 on Nature
- In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
- Albert Camus on Nature
- In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
- Alexander Hamilton on Nature
- In 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. Nixon on Nature
- In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
- Thomas Hobbes on Nature
- In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
- Wallace Stevens on Nature
- In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.
- Taylor Swift on Nature
- In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
- Charles Lindbergh on Nature
- Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.
- Jane Smiley on Nature
- Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
- Herman Melville on Nature
- It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
- Henry David Thoreau on Nature
- It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
- It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
- David Bailey on Nature
- It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
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