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Nature

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a mans nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. – Francis Bacon

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and theyre still beautiful. – Alice Walker

To insult someone we call him bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, human might be the greater insult. – Isaac Asimov

Of all natures gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children? – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Mans true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good. – Blaise Pascal

Nature seems at each mans birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What a book a devils chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! – Charles Darwin

Borrow trouble for yourself, if thats your nature, but dont lend it to your neighbours. – Rudyard Kipling

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and youve conquered human nature. – Charles Dickens

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a womans quality. – Pierre Corneille

Race hate isnt human nature race hate is the abandonment of human nature. – Orson Welles

Painting from nature is not copying the object it is realizing ones sensations. – Paul Cezanne

Im not into organized religion. Im into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing were all just part of nature. – Neil Young

If you dont know how to die, dont worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you dont bother your head about it. – Michel de Montaigne

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet shell be constantly running back. – Horace

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devils alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies. – Michel de Montaigne

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro nature, moulding men. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

Behold the child, by Natures kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. – Alexander Pope

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure dont need an enemy. – Kurt Vonnegut

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know whats going on. – Jacques Yves Cousteau