I'm a sports fanatic. It's hard for me to commit to the weekly, episodic nature of television, so for me, anytime that I can put a game on, that's what I do.
When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.
The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?
I've taught the better class of tourist both to see and not to see; to lift their eyes above and beyond the inessentials, and thrill to our western Nature in her majesty.
The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural and healthy dirtiness again.
English majors understand human nature better than economists do.
There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
People is, I think, it's their nature - some people's nature, in a way, to be angry or jealous or just spiteful about somebody else's blessings.
I'm not an outdoors person by instinct or nature. I'm more of a city person.
I grew up in Belle Harbor, which is in New York City, but it has the most powerful sense of nature and seasons. It wasn't even the beach and the water. I just dreamt about everything that had to do with nature. I read about Thoreau.
Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.
