- When I pray, I always thank Mother Nature for all the beauty in the world. It’s about having an attitude of gratitude.
Miranda Kerr
- The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
Noam Chomsky
- Only the brave know how to forgive… a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
Laurence Sterne
- When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
- One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
Jack London
- The skull is nature’s sculpture.
David Bailey
- I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
Pat Buckley
- Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
Bodhidharma
- One can ascend to a higher development only by bringing rhythm and repetition into one’s life. Rhythm holds sway in all nature.
Rudolf Steiner
- We need no fanciful teaching regarding the personality of God. What God desires us to know of Him is revealed in His word and His works. The beautiful things of nature reveal His character and His power as Creator.
Ellen G. White
- Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
Alexander Pope
- At the end of the day, you can’t compete with Mother Nature. If you’ve got a great tomato, just a pinch of sea salt is all you need.
Zac Posen
- It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
Anatole France
- Architecture is a code. It’s a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature.
Santiago Calatrava
- Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.
L. Wolfe Gilbert
- Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
Arthur Conan Doyle
- I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
Baruch Spinoza
- Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
Camille Paglia
- Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
Napoleon Hill
- We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‘Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.
Isaac Newton
- Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Victor Hugo
- I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.
Bob Dylan
- Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
Jean-Paul Sartre
- I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
Julius Caesar
- Family, nature and health all go together.
Olivia Newton-John
- The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
Michael Pollan
- By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You’ve just got to keep moving. You can’t stop.
Brad Pitt
- Law is born from despair of human nature.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
- Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
Fay Weldon
- I get inspiration from a lot of things around me – nature, hills, people, and even insects.
Ruskin Bond
- We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund Burke
- A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
Louis Nizer
- Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.
Adolf Loos
- True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it’s our own true nature.
Tara Brach
- To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Adam Smith
- Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
William Ruckelshaus
- We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
Louis Aragon
- Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.
Alvar Aalto
- Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye… it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
Edvard Munch
- There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.
John Steinbeck
- No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment.
Lucy Larcom
- Human nature is above all things lazy.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
John Kenneth Galbraith
- Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.
Thich Nhat Hanh
- Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
John Dewey
- I’m very inspired by nature – you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.
Martha Stewart
- I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.
Steve Lacy
- Tears are nature’s lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
Christian Nestell Bovee
- Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement is nature.
Henry Moore
- I am an agnostic, even though I respect and am interested in all religions. If there’s something I believe in, it’s a mysterious energy; the one that fills the oceans during tides, the one that unites nature and beings.
Monica Bellucci