What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. – Werner Heisenberg
I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all. – Michelangelo
There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself in no wise hath she need of an author. – Marquis de Sade
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. – Thomas Aquinas
I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory. – Julius Caesar
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit. – Sophocles
My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything. – Lee Atwater
It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual. – Zora Neale Hurston
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it. – Paul Cezanne
Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods. – George W. Bush
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum. – Desmond Tutu
Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself. – Lewis Thomas
If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression. – Edward Hopper
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. – Tennessee Williams
Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul. – Ovid
If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day. – Alex Noble
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. – David Herbert Lawrence
Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair. – Doug Coupland
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. – Edward Hopper
There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions. – Edward Hopper
