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" Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. "

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" 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

" Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. "

H. P. Lovecraft

" 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. "

" Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer. "

Andy Goldsworthy

" 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 all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. "

" There's no night without stars. "

" Sound is the vocabulary of nature. "

Pierre Schaeffer

" No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep. "

" Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. "

" One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. "

" As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight. "

Jordan Peterson

" Nature is the fountain's head, the source from whence all originality must spring. "

" To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. "

" The world, when you look at it, it just can't be random. I mean, it's so different than the vast emptiness that is everything else, and even all the other planets we've seen, at least in our solar system, none of them even remotely resemble the precious life-giving nature of our own planet. "

" It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book. "

" We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. "

" All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. "

" The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life. "

" You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. "

" As the twig is bent the tree inclines. "

" If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. "

" He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life. "

" There is the sky, which is all men's together. "

" The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. "

" Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh. "

" The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets. "

" Suspicion is only another form of cowardice. The man who suspects constantly suspects because he is afraid. Whenever you find a man with a free, frank, generous, brave nature, you will find that man without suspicion. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live. "

" No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. "

William Howard Taft