“If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.”
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“To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.”
“It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.”
“Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.”
“Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.”
“We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.”
“Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.”
“The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.”
“I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.”
“The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.”
“Nature chooses who will be transgender individuals don't choose this.”
“If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.”
“There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.”
“Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.”
“Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.”
“Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.”
“The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.”
“Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.”
“For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.”
“A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.”
“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.”
“Nature abhors a vacuum.”
“I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.”
“Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.”