The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.
If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it.
Here in the United States, corporations has human rights. And then why not - why not nature also, if corporations can defend themselves, saying, 'We have human rights?' Well, let's admit that nature also should be protected.
Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law.
The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.
This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that of all corporeality along with it, including the actuality of my body, the body of the cognizing subject.
Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.
There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactio...
The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.
And so about many other things of the same nature, we are trying to make people believe these things, and we make creeds of them; and thus we continue to do our own will, which is the ground of all sin.
Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency.
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
I think having nature be a part of people's lives helps all of us see ourselves as part of something larger.
The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases.
Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.
