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Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
Alan King on nature

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
Benjamin Disraeli on nature

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
George Eliot on nature

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
Francis Bacon on nature

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
James Dean on nature

Race hate isn't human nature race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
Orson Welles on nature

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
Leo Tolstoy on nature

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
Honore de Balzac on nature

What is art? Nature concentrated.
Honore de Balzac on nature

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
Richard P. Feynman on nature

I love not man the less, but Nature more.
Lord Byron on nature

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Arthur Schopenhauer on nature

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
John Keats on nature

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
Karl Von Clausewitz on nature

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
Honore de Balzac on nature

The world is too much with us late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
William Wordsworth on nature

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
Thomas Aquinas on nature

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
Thomas Huxley on nature

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
Harry Emerson Fosdick on nature

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
Paul Cezanne on nature