3 December 2020 Willa Cather I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
3 December 2020 Joseph Addison Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
3 December 2020 James Madison What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
3 December 2020 Desiderius Erasmus Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
3 December 2020 Primo Levi Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
3 December 2020 Eleonora Duse If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
3 December 2020 Gabrielle Union I love romantic comedies. They’re for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There’s nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That’s not second nature to me, thank God.
3 December 2020 Sara Teasdale Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children’s faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.
3 December 2020 Diablo Cody 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.
3 December 2020 Richard Le Gallienne There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.
3 December 2020 David Hume There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
3 December 2020 Alphonse de Lamartine Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
3 December 2020 Joni Mitchell No one likes to have less than they had before. That’s the nature of the human animal.
3 December 2020 Bodhidharma To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
3 December 2020 Jules Verne 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.
3 December 2020 Toni Morrison The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.
3 December 2020 Laurence J. Peter Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
3 December 2020 William Bartram My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.
3 December 2020 Aldo Leopold In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries no man can ignore all of them.
3 December 2020 Anna Kendrick I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I’m not thinking about the camera and that it’s second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it.
