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- The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.
- Georges Simenon on Nature
- The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
- Luc De Clapiers on Nature
- The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
- The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
- Alexander Pope on Nature
- The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
- Blaise Pascal on Nature
- The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
- Antoine De Saint-Exupery on Nature
- The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.
- Giacomo Casanova on Nature
- The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
- Zora Neale Hurston on Nature
- The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
- Reinhold Niebuhr on Nature
- The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Nature
- The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
- William Ellery Channing on Nature
- The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
- Eric Berne on Nature
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
- The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
- James Allen on Nature
- The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
- Erich Fromm on Nature
- The mountains are calling and I must go.
- The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
- Samuel Adams on Nature
- The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
- Empedocles on Nature
- The nature of rumor is known to all.
- Tertullian on Nature
- The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.
- Margaret J. Wheatley on Nature
- The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg on Nature
- The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
- William Hazlitt on Nature
- The poetry of the earth is never dead.
- John Keats on Nature
- The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.
- William Shatner on Nature
- The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
- Muhammad Iqbal on Nature
- The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.
- Marquis De Sade on Nature
- 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.
- Noam Chomsky on Nature
- The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
- Walter Lippmann on Nature
- The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
- The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.
- Sigmund Freud on Nature
- The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.
- Helen Garner on Nature
- The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
- Jacques Yves Cousteau on Nature
- The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
- Herbert Spencer on Nature
- 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 on Nature
- The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.
- Alexander Hamilton on Nature
- 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.
- John Kenneth Galbraith on Nature
- The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
- Eric Hoffer on Nature
- The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
- Alfred Adler on Nature
- The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
- Muhammad Iqbal on Nature
- The scientist does not study nature because it is useful he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
- Henri Poincare on Nature
- The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
- Jules Verne on Nature
- The skull is nature's sculpture.
- David Bailey on Nature
- The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
- John Ruskin on Nature
- The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
- Joseph Wood Krutch on Nature
- The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
- Joseph Addison on Nature
- The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
- John Milton on Nature
- The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.
- Christopher Alexander on Nature
- The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
- Francis Bacon on Nature
- The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
- Havelock Ellis on Nature
- The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
- Galileo Galilei on Nature
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