There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.
I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.
There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end.
People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.
To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.
Nature in America does not arouse powerful emotions in me.
I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.
I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.
True, Putin's Russia does not dream of joining the E.U., but Russia's stability depends on preserving the European nature of its regime.
The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
