- There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.
- Richard Le Gallienne on Nature
- There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.
- Charles Eastman on Nature
- There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.
- Edward Hopper on Nature
- There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.
- John Mayer on Nature
- There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.
- Wole Soyinka on Nature
- 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 on Nature
- There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.
- Marguerite Moreau on Nature
- There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.
- Greg Kinnear on Nature
- They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
- Jane Austen on Nature
- This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
- William Burroughs on Nature
- Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
- Izaak Walton on Nature
- Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
- Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
- Antonio Gaudi on Nature
- Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.
- Robert Bork on Nature
- Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
- Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld on Nature
- Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
- William Cowper on Nature
- Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.
- Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero on Nature
- Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
- Woody Allen on Nature
- 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 on Nature
- To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.
- To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
- Henry David Thoreau on Nature
- To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
- William Hazlitt on Nature
- To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
- George Santayana on Nature
- To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
- Joseph Addison on Nature
- To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
- Henry Ward Beecher on Nature
- To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
- Wendell Berry on Nature
- To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
- Charles Dickens on Nature
- To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
- Max Beerbohm on Nature
- To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.
- Bodhidharma on Nature
- To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
- Adam Smith on Nature
- To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
- Bodhidharma on Nature
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
- Isaac Asimov on Nature
- To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.
- James Buchan on Nature
- To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
- Emily Dickinson on Nature
- To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
- Helen Keller on Nature
- To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.
- David Hockney on Nature
- 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 on Nature
- To 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.
- To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
- James Whistler on Nature
- To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
- Jane Austen on Nature
- To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
- Auguste Rodin on Nature
- To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.
- Niccolo Machiavelli on Nature
- Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore on Nature
- Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
- Mahatma Gandhi on Nature
- Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.
- Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye, looking on, finds its own.
- Edward G. Bulwer Lytton on Nature
- Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
- Blaise Pascal on Nature
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