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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
Alexander Pope on nature

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. Feynman on nature

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.
Henry Miller on nature

If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.
Michel de Montaigne on nature

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.
Miriam Makeba on nature

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
Galileo Galilei on nature

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
Marcel Proust on nature

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
Arthur Keith on nature

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
Horace on nature

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
Adam Weishaupt on nature

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
James Madison on nature

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
Michel de Montaigne on nature

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
Michel de Montaigne on nature

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
Mason Cooley on nature

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Henry A. Kissinger on nature

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer on nature

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
Alfred Lord Tennyson on nature

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.
Desiderius Erasmus on nature

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.
Henry Beston on nature

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
Arthur Conan Doyle on nature