3 December 2020 Anne Bronte A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
3 December 2020 Denis Diderot No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
3 December 2020 Hubert H. Humphrey A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
3 December 2020 Pierre Corneille Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman’s quality.
3 December 2020 Richard Bach What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
3 December 2020 Denis Diderot It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
3 December 2020 Gustave Flaubert Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
3 December 2020 Isaac Bashevis Singer What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
3 December 2020 Carl Sagan If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
3 December 2020 Saint Basil Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
3 December 2020 Maria Mitchell Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
3 December 2020 Helen Garner The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.
3 December 2020 Marie Curie All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
3 December 2020 Hamlin Garland My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
3 December 2020 Orson Welles Race hate isn’t human nature race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
3 December 2020 John Muir Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.
3 December 2020 Calvin Coolidge 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.
3 December 2020 Franz Liszt It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.
3 December 2020 Steven Weinberg Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it’s like that, then I want out.
3 December 2020 Aleister Crowley Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.
