Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. Laurence Sterne Nature
We live in a very chaotic world that sometimes we - it just seems like a mess. One of the reasons why we listen to music, and to great classical music in particular, is that everything is in an order and in a place and has a beauty that you see in nature, that you see and that people look for when they look for God. Joshua Bell Nature
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. William Shakespeare Nature
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground. Alexander Pope Nature
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. Arthur Schopenhauer Nature
The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution. Steven Pinker Nature
Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison. Bjork Nature
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds. Niccolo Machiavelli Nature
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. Calvin Coolidge Nature
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone. Baruch Spinoza Nature
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow. Antonio Porchia Nature
The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves. Willem de Kooning Nature
The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft. Walter Gropius Nature
But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy? Harriet Martineau Nature