Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. Richard P. Feynman
I love not man the less, but Nature more. Lord Byron
Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer. John Keats
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating. Karl Von Clausewitz
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. Honore de Balzac
The world is too much with us late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours. William Wordsworth
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power. Thomas Aquinas
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. Thomas Huxley
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. Harry Emerson Fosdick
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations. Paul Cezanne
I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others. Sidney Sheldon
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
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices. Jean-Paul Sartre
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
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art. Virginia Woolf
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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
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