The three most beautiful sights: a potato garden in bloom, a ship under sail, and a woman after the birth of a child.
Having commodified nature, we're eating the shrapnel of a worldwide homogeneity bomb.
I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another.
The logic of thought is derivative of the laws of nature. Laws of nature is subject to the idea that creates nature.
If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them.
Rather than trying to master nature we should start with the basics of trying to understand nature, cooperate with nature.
Natural gas is the best transportation fuel. It's better than gasoline or diesel. It's cleaner, it's cheaper, and it's domestic. Natural gas is 97 percent domestic fuel, North America.
Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.
Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
Socialised humanity represses nature and degrades human nature; it takes life and waters it down - probably to control it - diluting existence with water that is lukewarm, sweet and murky.
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.
Nature did not gift us with a mighty Mekong like Thailand and Vietnam, with their vast and naturally fertile plains. Nature instead put our islands ahead of our neighbours in the path of typhoons from the Pacific.
When I'm off the clock, I usually play video games - or do something nature-y so I can contribute to Mother Nature.
We are always creating new tools and techniques to help people, but the fundamental framework is remarkably resilient, which means it must have something to do with the nature of organizations or human nature.
I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful!
Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.
Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
The natural capital is not income, but we spend our natural capital as if it were revenue, as if it were going to come back next year without any problems, whereas these renewals in nature can take hundreds of years.
Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.
