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I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.
Sidney Sheldon on nature

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
Thomas Huxley on nature

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
Jean-Paul Sartre on nature

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.
Stephen King on nature

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
Virginia Woolf on nature

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery on nature

Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.
John Muir on nature

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.
John Ruskin on nature

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
John Keats on nature

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
Max Planck on nature

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
Fran Lebowitz on nature

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave it is not in his nature.
Laurence Sterne on nature

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
John Ruskin on nature

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
Richard M. Nixon on nature

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
P. J. O'Rourke on nature

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
Stephen Hawking on nature

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
Francis Bacon on nature

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.
Fran Lebowitz on nature

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
Calvin Coolidge on nature

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
May Sarton on nature