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Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.
Joseph Smith, Jr. on nature

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
Marquis de Sade on nature

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
James Allen on nature

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
Jimmy Carter on nature

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
Desmond Tutu on nature

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.
Lewis Thomas on nature

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
Paul Cezanne on nature

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
Lady Gaga on nature

Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.
George W. Bush on nature

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Friedrich Schiller on nature

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.
Edward Hopper on nature

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
Tennessee Williams on nature

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.
Standing Bear on nature

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
Ovid on nature

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
Eric Hoffer on nature

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.
Alex Noble on nature

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.
Baltasar Gracian on nature

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
David Herbert Lawrence on nature

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.
Doug Coupland on nature

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
Edward Hopper on nature