Nature

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art. – Louis Nizer

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious. – Corin Nemec

Nature abhors a vacuum. – Francois Rabelais

Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature. – Andrea Arnold

Human nature is above all things lazy. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality. – Abdolkarim Soroush

Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet. – Jack Herer

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. – Henri Poincare

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. – Thomas Hobbes

There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century. – Arthur Erickson

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality. – Wislawa Szymborska

Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that. – Xun Zi

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal. – Xun Zi

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die. – Xun Zi

I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources. – Yvon Chouinard

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles. – Xun Zi

Human nature is what Heaven supplies. – Xun Zi

Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving. – Xun Zi

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow. – Baruch Spinoza

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. – Alfred North Whitehead