Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

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.

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

Hidden nature is secret God.

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

It is hard I submit to loathe bloodshed including war more than I do but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature in her manner of operation.

Self-preservation nature's first great law all the creatures except man doth awe.

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

The skull is nature's sculpture.

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.

The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person and with the innermost nature of human feeling.

Women by their nature are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.

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.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent.

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.

As parents grandparents uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics religion virtually anything.

We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.

There can never be such a thing as a free market because it is human nature to cheat monopolize and buy off others so as to corner the market.

People have always wanted to be recognized and that's human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments and now they simply want to be visible.