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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
William Cowper on nature

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
Percy Bysshe Shelley on nature

Nature is perfect.
William Shatner on nature

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
Camille Paglia on nature

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
Marquis de Sade on nature

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
Ellsworth Huntington on nature

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye, looking on, finds its own.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton on nature

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.
Jerry Garcia on nature

Great art picks up where nature ends.
Marc Chagall on nature

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
Aeschylus on nature

Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.
Larry Wilcox on nature

When I'm off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It's a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that can be anything - going for a walk in nature, being in silence, burning incense.
Alanis Morissette on nature

Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.
William Ames on nature

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. Feynman on nature

As in nature, as in art, so in grace it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.
Thomas Guthrie on nature

The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
James Thurber on nature

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.
Michael J. Fox on nature

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.
Gustave Flaubert on nature

But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.
Maynard James Keenan on nature

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.
Elvis Presley on nature