Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves.

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.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature and poetry and all that is spiritual.

Painting from nature is not copying the object it is realizing one's sensations.

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

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

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.

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors a location where it cannot be argued there are never enough comfortable chairs.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave it is not in his nature.

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because in the last analysis we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

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.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every conceived notion follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads or you will learn nothing.

I admire people who are by nature kind and fair to others.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject but to realize sensations.

The chess-board is the world the pieces are the phenomena of the universe the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

As regards the individual nature woman is defective and misbegotten for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

The world is too much with us late and soon getting and spending we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.