“Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.”
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“It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.”
“The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.”
“You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.”
“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.”
“To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.”
“If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.”
“Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.”
“And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.”
“Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.”
“Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.”
“Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.”
“By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.”
“I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.”
“All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.”
“A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.”
“Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.”
“Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.”
“There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.”
“Human nature is above all things lazy.”
“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.”
“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.”
“In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.”
“What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!”