You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back. Horace
When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished. Adam Weishaupt
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. James Madison
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies. Michel de Montaigne
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. Michel de Montaigne
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. Mason Cooley
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. Henry A. Kissinger
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed. Desiderius Erasmus
The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. Henry Beston
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. Arthur Conan Doyle
The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall. Helen Garner
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain. Frank Lloyd Wright
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. Alexander Pope
Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use. Alexander Pope
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. Alexander Pope
If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy. Kurt Vonnegut
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on. Jacques Yves Cousteau