We now use the word 'nature' very much as our fathers used the word 'God.' — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I wonder as to the value of consciousness,” said Jack, “if it does not change the nature of a beast.” — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I can't go against my nature because I am what I am. I don't try to be anyone different to who I… — Brian McDermott Copy Share Image
Earth tries to work sorcery on us, saying Tomorrow, Tomorrow, but we outwit that spell by enjoying this now. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Poor people are subject to fancies — this is a provision of nature.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Farting is natures way of telling someone to fuck off but in a nicer way. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality. --Richard Wright to William Faulkner” — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“I swear I begin to see the meaning of these things. It is not the earth, it is not America, who is… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Life should be a constant vision of God's presence. Here is our defense against being led away by the gauds and shows… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above,… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
“...the vulgarity of an environment as bleakly desolate as the neon lights of the factory where the men go each morning, like… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Only to the degree that people have what they need, that they are healthy and unafraid, that their lives are varied, interesting,… — John Holt Copy Share Image
“typical modern households live in urban environments where they earn incomes through some form of wage work and buy food produced by… — David Christian Copy Share Image
What's my philosophy? In a word, integral. And what on earth — or in heaven — do I mean by integral? The… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss Sullivan had taught me… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Understand: any phenomenon in the world is by nature complex. The people you deal with are equally complex. Any action sets off… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
What we call music in our everyday language is only a miniature, which our intelligence has grasped from that music or harmony… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Only in our darkest hour do we find the light. Humans are destructive by nature. The world is lacking balance. Terrors are… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Copy Share Image
Nature, when undisturbed, is never monotonous, you know. Even when using green, the most frequent color on her palette, she throws in… — Mabel Osgood Wright Copy Share Image
Giving and receiving pleasure is the nature of the cosmos, the inner nature of reality. — Marc Gafni Copy Share Image
Every single act of one who would lead a life of purity should be in the nature of yajna. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Environment does shape you. My environment, in a pit family, in a pit village, with nine kids in total. — Dennis Skinner Copy Share Image
In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness. — Lionel Johnson Copy Share Image
Nature is actually resilient, if we take care to just stop actively destroying it. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Mother nature is a brutal bitch, red in tooth and claw, who destroys what she creates.” — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“I’d dig your grave with a spoon, if the earth were made of green Jell-O.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
For all that faire is, is by nature good;That is a signe to know the gentle blood. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
It's time to change the conversation about nature to focus on what we all have in common: our shared humanity. — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation. — William Whewell Copy Share Image
