| "nature, by its very nature, is very brutal and unequal. However, Man has somehow managed to transform the nature of its brutality and inequality." »Kedar Joshi |
| "You think nature is some Disney movie nature is a killer. nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain." »Jeff Melvoin |
| "While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion Let nature take its course. By letting each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to be done gets done." »Lao Tzu |
| "Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything." »Francis Bacon |
| "The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural." »Philip Jose Farmer |
| "Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated." »Franois Auguste Ren Rodin |
| "Different people have different duties assigned to them by nature nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, and the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat." »Henrik Ibsen |
| "Whatever you are by nature, keep to it never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed." »Sydney Smith |
| "It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that eve" »Galileo Galilei |
| "Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does it is one of the sensible things that nature does." »George E. Woodbury |
| "What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it." »Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| "Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything. Without going beyond his own nature, one can achieve ultimate wisdom. Therefore, the intelligent man knows all he needs to know without going away, And sees all he needs to see without looking elsewhere, And does all he needs to do wihout undue exertion." »Lao Tzu |
| "nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom only in men's souls." »Adlai Ewing Stevenson |
| "The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former." »Samuel Smiles |
| "Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate their subject matters." »B. F. Skinner |
| "I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature." »Cicero |
| "Dr. Joel Fleischman in nature. Not exactly the man you knew. He couldn't see past the Hudson River if he tried. He liked his fish smoked or preferable hand sliced from Zabars on a sliced bagel served with onions. nature, to him, was an irritant. Birds didn't sing, they woke him up. A body of water wasn't life, it was a golf hazard.." »Robin Green |
| "It is not true that equality is a law of nature. nature has no equality. Its soverign law is subordination and dependence." »Marquis de Vauvenargues |
| "Art is a man's nature nature is God's art." »Philip James Bailey |
| "nature uses as little as possible of anything." »Alan Bleasdale |
| "I am at two with nature." »Woody Allen |
| "It can't be nature, for it is not sense." »Charles Churchill |
| "nature does nothing uselessly." »Aristotle |
| "What is art nature concentrated." »Honore' de Balzac |
| "In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous." »Aristotle |
| "It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact." »Edmund Burke |
| "There is no place in nature for extinction." »Licretius |
| "nature never says one thing, Wisdom another." »Juvenal |
| "We cannot command nature except by obeying her." »Francis Bacon |
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