I'm a bit of a loner, you know? I'm more quiet by nature. And coming from, you know, hillbilly country, I'm probably more reserved.
Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.
I can't go against my nature because I am what I am. I don't try to be anyone different to who I am.
Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.
Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you're getting insights about God.
The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.
Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.
So many times, people told me I can't do this or can't do that. My nature is that I don't listen very well. I'm very determined, and I believe in myself. My parents brought me up that way. Thank God for that. I don't let anything stand in my way.
Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
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.
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, 'Do as You promised.'
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
I'm obsessed with nature and living in the wild, which I just think is crazy. Imagine if a bear attacked you! That's an actual possible way you could die.
Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.
Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.
Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.
You can never really go wrong if you take nature as an example.
This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.
The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it.
Mother Nature is the great equalizer. You can't get away from it.
We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.
It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.
One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.
By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.
The skull is nature's sculpture.
Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets.
It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.