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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Frank Lloyd Wright

A spaceship is a delicately balanced environment. Every element that doesn't contribute to the overall functioning of the system is by definition working against it. The same is true of our planet – our mothership – though sadly, most architecture today is slowly fatal to nature's systems
Constance Adams

Nature provides exceptions to every rule
Margaret Fuller

From this amphibious ill-born mob began That vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman. (The True-Born Englishman)
Daniel Defoe

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
John D Rockefeller

If you want to make good photographs, a camera has to be second nature to you. [Criticising over-emphasis on technical elements of what you are doing]
Robert Farber

Family, nature and health all go together.
Olivia Newton-John

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Baltasar Gracian

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
Galbraith

Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine.
Eric Hoffer

I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity. People want someone to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy them because it makes them feel insecure.
Danielle Dax

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Ambrose Bierce

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Aristotle

All nature wears one universal grin.
Henry Fielding

Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
Marcus Aurelius

Death is the privilege of human nature, And life without it were not worth our taking.
Nicholas Rowe

We pine for kindred natures
To mingle with our own.
Felicia Hemans

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

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny
Bill Frist

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
Thomas Hobbes

There is no revolution that can change the nature of man
Benito Mussolini

This only is hidden from people - the true nature of how they appear to be to other people and not just themselves.
Germanicus

We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
Jacob Bronowski

Nature knows best, and she says, roar!
Maria Edgeworth

I don't know. People always think that there has got to be a dark side to everyone, a closet with skeletons, demons under the bed. People think all kinds of things about one another. They feel compelled to make up fears and false assumptions about their closest friends. 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.
Tom Hanks

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Frank Lloyd Wright

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
Alice Walker

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great art picks up where nature ends.
Marc Chagall

The 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 Thoreau

'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 Jackson

Sleep 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 Nash

Nature, red in tooth and claw.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose. [On the true nature of politics]
James Ellroy

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Sir Thomas Browne

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
Karl Von Clausewitz

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning
Werner Heisenberg

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. - Life and Human Nature
Logan Pearsall Smith

Nature does not make jumps
Carl Linnaeus

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
Sir Thomas Aquinas

Art may imitate wild nature; less often does it dare to place itself in the midst of it, and when it does, it may come out second best. [Profound indeed]
John Hart

Gardening, 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

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 Toynbee

Habit is the deepest law of human nature.
Thomas Carlyle

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H G Wells

In truth there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution
Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honour nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
Jimmy Carter

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Hosea Ballou

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
Honore De Balzac



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