“Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.”
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“Painting from nature is not copying the object it is realizing one's sensations.”
“Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves.”
“To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.”
“I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.”
“It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.”
“In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.”
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”
“Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.”
“I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.”
“Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.”
“Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.”
“Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.”
“You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.”
“It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.”
“Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.”
“The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.”
“Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.”
“The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.”
“What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.”
“England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.”
“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.”
“Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.”
“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.”