As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art. Albrecht Durer
Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication. Marshall McLuhan
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. Hosea Ballou
I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind. Robert Fulghum
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. Hannah Arendt
For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable. Liam Neeson
Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised. Camille Paglia
Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it. David Hume
Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. David Hume
Be truthful, nature only sides with truth. Adolf Loos
The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor. Zora Neale Hurston
When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me. Tim Burton
I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being. Martha Graham
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws. Nicolas Chamfort
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life. Henri Frederic Amiel
The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere. Empedocles
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. Denis Diderot
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. Denis Diderot