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" Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control. "

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" My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature. "

" I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic - I use this metaphor a lot but I'll use it again - it's like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries - it's just what happens with this being, now. "

" Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. "

" There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You can't plan nature; you court her. "

" The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children. "

Henry Morton Stanley

" For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all. "

" Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. "

Orison Swett Marden

" If the myth of pure evil is that evil is committed with the intention of causing harm and an absence of moral considerations, then it applies to very few acts of so-called 'pure evil' because most evildoers believe what they are doing is forgivable or justifiable. "

" The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. "

" In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light. "

" The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated. "

Johann Georg Hamann

" Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. "

William Wordsworth

" Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are. "

" None of us can claim to be fair and square in love - and I'm definitely not a hypocrite! Humans are built to evolve with time. It depends on the nature of the relationship you share with a person. It is there today, tomorrow it may be gone; c'est la vie. "

" Look at almost any passage, and you'll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It's not that the speaker is trying to be poetic, it's just that that's the way language works. "

" We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilisation, we must deal scientifically with the brute element, using only genuine biological principles. "

H. P. Lovecraft

" Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature. "

" The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing. "

" Water is the driving force of all nature. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" 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. "

Nathaniel Hawthorne

" Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. "

Anthony J. D'Angelo

" I love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I'm not a gardener or anything like that. I think I may be, eventually. I was raised in the city, so I don't have that skill set, but my heart is more with the dirt than the concrete. It's an unrequited love with nature - a one-way love affair. "

" There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. "

Robert Wilson Lynd

" We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets. "

" I'm continually inspired by nature, and the rainbow is one of nature's greatest optical phenomenons. The sighting of a rainbow never fails to bring a smile to people's faces. They signify optimism and positivity: with them comes the sunshine after the rain. "

Matthew Williamson

" It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature. "

" To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species. "

" We know about every massacre that has taken place close to the present, but the ones in the distant past are like trees falling in the forest with no one to hear them. "

" There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider the arts. Visual arts - decoration of surfaces and bodies - appears to be a human universal. "

" The nature of things is dharma. "