The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. John Muir
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid. Franz Kafka
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. Samuel Johnson
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. Max Beerbohm
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature. Neil Young
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. Alexander Pope
The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more. Alexander Pope
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light! Alexander Pope
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. Virginia Woolf
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things. Ansel Adams
In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. Nathaniel Hawthorne
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. Richard P. Feynman
Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature. Henry Miller
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
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
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
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. Marcel Proust
Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful. Arthur Keith