3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
3 December 2020 John Muir Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
3 December 2020 Edward Gibbon The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
3 December 2020 Arthur Keith Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
3 December 2020 Henri Matisse An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
3 December 2020 Richard P. Feynman Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
3 December 2020 Aristotle 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.
3 December 2020 Georg C. Lichtenberg The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
3 December 2020 Louis Nizer A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
3 December 2020 Xun Zi Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.
3 December 2020 Wendell Berry Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
3 December 2020 Alex Trebek If you can’t be in awe of Mother Nature, there’s something wrong with you.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
3 December 2020 Horace You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.
3 December 2020 Alexander Hamilton The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.
3 December 2020 Saint Augustine Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
3 December 2020 Sallust It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
3 December 2020 Christopher Alexander The structure of life I have described in buildings – the structure which I believe to be objective – is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.
3 December 2020 Christian Nestell Bovee We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
