How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature a soul why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment his soul might die before his body does or that his soul might die without his knowing it?

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

Go forth under the open sky and list To Nature's teachings.

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

Nature never makes any blunders when she makes a fool she means it.

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand rejoice for your soul is alive.

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand rejoice for your soul is alive.

The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there so the underlying nature of being is weird.

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity love brotherhood and relationships that I never understood and probably never would have. So from that standpoint there is some truth and good in everything.

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being and through its use brings peace to every human soul.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress and what by a dome.

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy wasteful blundering low and horribly cruel work of nature!

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince and to understand the nature of the prince one must be of the people.

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.