There are unknown forces in nature when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect. Auguste Rodin
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it. John Stuart Mill
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away. Fay Weldon
I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity. Christina Aguilera
Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble. Michael J. Fox
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature. Christopher Morley
The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything. Pink
Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant. Gustave Flaubert
I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature and that man will be myself. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest. Charles Baudelaire
Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them. Christian Nestell Bovee
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. William Cowper
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. William Cowper
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth. Camille Paglia
All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one. Marquis de Sade
We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers. Ellsworth Huntington
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye, looking on, finds its own. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think. Jerry Garcia