The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
It’s amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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.
I say you don’t need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
If you can’t be in awe of Mother Nature, there’s something wrong with you.
By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You’ve just got to keep moving. You can’t stop.
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.
Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.
You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.
Nature promotes mutualism. The flower nourishes the bee. The river waters quench the thirst of all living beings. And trees provide a welcoming home to so many birds and animals. There is a rhythm to this togetherness.
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.
