To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. Isaac Asimov on nature
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children? Marcus Tullius Cicero on nature
Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience. Blaise Pascal on nature
Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good. Blaise Pascal on nature
Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death. Blaise Pascal on nature
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. Blaise Pascal on nature
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being. Francois de La Rochefoucauld on nature
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. George MacDonald on nature
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! Charles Darwin on nature
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. Arthur Schopenhauer on nature
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences. Robert Green Ingersoll on nature
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another. Arthur Schopenhauer on nature
You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing. Orison Swett Marden on nature
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. Rudyard Kipling on nature
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. Margaret Mead on nature
There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with. Harry Crews on nature
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. Samuel Adams on nature
A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils. Margaret Cavendish on nature
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. Blaise Pascal on nature
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. Blaise Pascal on nature