The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
Nature surrounds us, from parks and backyards to streets and alleyways. Next time you go out for a walk, tread gently and remember that we are both inhabitants and stewards of nature in our neighbourhoods.
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
A national park is not a playground. It’s a sanctuary for nature and for humans who will accept nature on nature’s own terms.
Nature is my church. The wind in the trees and the bugs and the frogs. All those things are comfort to me.
Art will never be able to exist without nature.
I’m not a woman. I’m a force of nature.
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
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.
A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.
Cotton was a force of nature. There’s a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
I see a future in which nature gives us a helping hand. Instead of destroying the natural world, why can’t we use it to solve the kinds of problems that we are facing?
Love of man for woman – love of woman for man. That’s the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
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.
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
I am not ‘in pursuit of truth.’ It is not my ‘quarry.’ I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting ‘truths.’
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature’s chief masterpiece is writing well.
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
