England has always been disinclined to accept human nature. E. M. Forster
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' W. H. Auden
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. Garrison Keillor
Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s. Desiderius Erasmus
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. Marie Curie
If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth. Havelock Ellis
It is the nature of babies to be in bliss. Deepak Chopra
Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government. Paul Ryan
I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid. Richard Russo
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. Jane Austen
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of. Jane Austen
Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them. Helen Rowland
Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage. Mason Cooley
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy. Franz Liszt
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. W. Somerset Maugham
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. Al Gore
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit. Thomas Huxley
If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker. Thomas Huxley
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God. Reinhold Niebuhr