As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
Lord Byron

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
Margaret Mead

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

External nature is only internal nature writ large.
Swami Vivekananda

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
Horace Walpole

Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.
George W. Bush

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
Alan Watts

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
Reinhold Niebuhr

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
Reinhold Niebuhr

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
Vincent Van Gogh

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
Vincent Van Gogh

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
Jean-Paul Sartre

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles Darwin

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
Charles Darwin

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery