Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this.
The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.
This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.
I'm a really natural person; I love nature.
Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
There's no night without stars.
Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it.
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you.
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.
If we could establish a deep abiding relationship with nature, we would never kill an animal for our appetite; we would never harm, vivisect, a monkey, a dog, a guinea pig for our benefit. We would find other ways to heal our wounds, heal our bodies.
The fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors. The sun is out, you get warmth on your skin but there's the coolness of the breeze. It's really comfortable.