Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions. - Antoinette Brown Blackwell
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. - C. S. Lewis
Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous. - Elizabeth Hardwick
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. - Benjamin Britten
I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle. It's important to feel good with your body. The body is extremely important. If you feel good, you have more energy in your singing. - Cecilia Bartoli
If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living. - Henri Poincare
There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger. - Alan Bleasdale
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. - Arnold J. Toynbee
As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification. - John Hales
I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in. - Christopher Shays
The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world. - Joseph Butler
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. - William Graham Sumner
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. - Samuel Johnson
The things women find rewarding about work are, by and large, the same things that men find rewarding and include both the inherent nature of the work and the social relationships. - Grace Baruch
The movies I like to make are very rich and full of passion. Some people see me as an action director, but action is not the only thing in my movies. I always like to show human nature - something deep inside the heart. - John Woo
You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else. - William Cavendish
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it. - Gustave Courbet
Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them. - Sai Baba
Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee. - Martin H. Fischer
Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so. - Franz Kafka
It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats. - Alex Van Halen
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. - E. F. Schumacher
Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator. - Olivia Newton-John