Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us. – Robinson Jeffers
One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls. – Thor Heyerdahl
Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature. – Michael Faraday
If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature. – Julian Assange
Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection. – Christopher Lasch
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star. – Edwin Hubbel Chapin
All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws. – John Coltrane
Nature is the master of talents genius is the master of nature. – J. G. Holland
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? – Herman Melville
In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope. – Henri Matisse
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. – Horace Walpole
I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature. – David Attenborough
The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with. – Giacomo Casanova
Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film. – David Duchovny
A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World! – Henry Fielding
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey. – Graham Greene
Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing. – Ben Stein
The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life. – H. P. Blavatsky
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. – Wallace Stevens
Sound is the vocabulary of nature. – Pierre Schaeffer
