The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.
Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
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.
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?
You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.
If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.
Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern life probably plays a significant role in the epidemic incidence of depression today. Many studies show that depressed patients who stick to a regimen of aerobic exercise improve as much as those treated with medication.
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
There's no night without stars.
Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.
Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.