Nature does nothing uselessly.
Aristotle
Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune.
Curtis Rufus Quintus
The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
Edward Abbey
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.
Susan Polis Schutz
There is nothing in the world more beautiful than the forest clothed to its very hollows in snow. It is the still ecstasy of nature, wherein every spray, every blade of grass, every spire of reed, every intricacy of twig, is clad with radiance.
William Sharp
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
Joseph Conrad
It is not in the nature of man to accept permanent failure.
Edmund Cooper
Living virtuously is equal to living in accordance with one's experience of the actual course of nature.
Chrysippus
Man is by nature a lover. Only he has yet to discover the real thing to love. This quest awakens him to the fulfillment of his real Self.
Sri Chinmoy
Love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature.
Pierre Ambroise Franois Choderlos de Laclos
Human nature simply cannot subsist without a hope and aim of some kind; as the sanity of the Old Testament truly said, where there is no vision the people perisheth. But it is precisely because an ideal is necessary to man that the man without ideals is in permanent danger of fanaticism.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity the law of nature, and of nations.
Edmund Burke
Writers are not, by nature, respectable: their function is to be subversive.
Anthony Burgess
Christ's sacrifice stands in glorious proportions with the work to be done. Nothing else or less would suffice. It is a work supernatural, transacted in the plane of nature; and what but such a work could restore the broken order of the soul under evil?
Horace Bushnell
We do not know what death is. If we know so little about life which we have experienced, how shall be know about death which we have not and in the nature of things never can?
Samuel Butler