Nature provides exceptions to every rule
Margaret FullerNature has no mercy at all. Nature says, 'I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.'
Maya AngelouNature's loving proxy, the watching mother
Edward Bulwer-LyttonIt cannot be too frequently emphasized that the behaviour of any animal must depend upon on the nature of the stimulus which it meets, its anatomic and physiologic capacities, and its background of previous experience. Unless it has been conditioned by previous experience, an animal should respond identically to identical stumuli, whether they emanate from some part of its own body, from another individual of the same sex, or from an individual of the opposite sex.
Alfred KinseyNature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
Mary WebbSleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.
Ogden NashThe system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
E F SchumacherThere is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roarI love not Man the less, but Nature more.
Lord ByronThe finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
Henry David ThoreauHuman nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.
MenciusI don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to wear it anymore because I'm so wrapped up in the animals. I have real deep thoughts about it because I care about the world and nature.
Diana RossNature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
QuintilianWhat you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.
Boris Pasternak'I used to dream
I used to glance beyond the stars
Now I don't know where we are
although I know we've drifted far
What about yesterday
What about the seas
The heavens are falling down
I can't even breathe
What about the bleeding Earth
Can't we feel its wounds
What about nature's worth?
It's our planet's womb.'
Michael JacksonNature intended women to be our slaves... THey are our property... They belong to us, just as a tree that bears fruit belongs to a gardener.
Napoleon BonaparteWhat an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.
Brendan Francis BehanThat which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.
Sarah CaldwellEvery artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
Anthony TrollopeNature made him, and then broke the mould (Orlando Furioso)
Ludovico AriostoIn nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
Alice WalkerLove, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
Hannah ArendtNature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
Anatole FranceI 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 ThomsonThe law cannot equalize men in spite of Nature.
Luc De VauvanarguesSex is part of nature. I go along with nature.
Marilyn MonroeWhat nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Isaac SingerIt is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.
Fred HoyleFrom the level of pragmatic, everyday knowledge to modern natural science, the knowledge of nature derives from man's primary coming to grips with nature; at the same time it reacts back upon the system of social labour and stimulates its development.
Jurgen HabermasI’m a sacred cow. [on her irreplaceable nature on Blind Date, now de-commissioned]
Cilla BlackIt is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. (A Treatise Upon Human Nature)
David HumeThe duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
John Stuart MillAnybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose. [On the true nature of politics]
James EllroyA widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.
J G BallardHow many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true! - Life and Human Nature
Logan Pearsall SmithMemory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.
Jessamyn WestIt can't be Nature, for it is not sense
Charles ChurchillPlayers are not going to say sorry because, by their nature, they believe in themselves. I think they are quite arrogant people. They will blame everybody but themselves
David SullivanIn the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
Charles MontesquieuNature abhors a vacuum
Francois RabelaisAction, so to speak, is the genius of nature.
Robert BlairSuch is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
Thomas PaineGardening, I told myself, is the most sociable of hobbies. The very nature of one's field of activities demands an audience. No one wants flowers to blush unseen or waste their sweetness.
Barbara Cheney Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
Adlai E StevensonAll of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus
Judith AndersonThe idea of bringing all men on an equality with each other has always been a pleasant dream; the law cannot equalize men in spite of nature.
Luc De VauvanarguesAlthough our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
Karl Von ClausewitzAs a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, 'Let there be light,' constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.
Bruce BartonTopographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
Henry MillerGuys go off to excuse themselves, nature calls and that's how it goes
Duncan Fletcher
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