First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it.
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos.
The beliefs I was raised with – to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures – have had a huge impact on me.
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on – have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear – what remains? Nature remains.
I’m not opposed to a fancy meal, but I’ll take a picnic any day… food and nature? Sign me up.
How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there’s a great miracle. I think there’s a supreme power behind all of this. I see it in nature.
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.
To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part of larger and larger spheres of wholeness.
My father was a scientist and his colleagues were into pathology and microbiology, and study of viruses and how it spreads and mutates, so I understand the beauty with which nature works and more beautifully how our immune systems work.
The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen… We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
When you’re outside, and everything is highland, it’s like nature has its own sound, and that’s one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.
It’s our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.
It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
When man decides he can control nature, he’s in deep trouble.
True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it’s our own true nature.
It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.
