Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need. Primo Levi on nature
Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe. Andrew Marvell on nature
The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation. John Cage on nature
It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail. Vladimir Nabokov on nature
A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. Michael Pollan on nature
Hidden nature is secret God. Sri Aurobindo on nature
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it. Charlotte Bronte on nature
To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century. James Buchan on nature
It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness. Taylor Caldwell on nature
The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure. Dee Dee Myers on nature
Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you. David Attenborough on nature
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. Josef Albers on nature
Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature. Herbert Simon on nature
We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information. David Ogden Stiers on nature
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work. Pliny the Elder on nature
Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like. William Law on nature
I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever. Hugh Hefner on nature
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body. Quintilian on nature
I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature. Ricky Williams on nature
Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains. Thomas Frank on nature