Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.
— Xun Kuang
Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.
— Xavier Rudd
I am two with nature.
— Woody Allen
There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.
— Wole Soyinka
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
— Winston Churchill
Over time, we as humans have developed a different attitude towards nature and we've forgotten about our inner power.
— Wim Hof
I never had a teacher, and I never had lessons, other than hard Nature itself.
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
— William Wordsworth
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied research; to me, it is more important to know if the experiment will yield new and probably enduring knowledge about nature.
— William Shockley
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
— William Shakespeare
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
— William Ruckelshaus
Nature is economical. She puts her lights and darks only where she needs them.
— William Morris Hunt
You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on nature's own hues and tints.
— William Merritt Chase
Human nature is what Heaven supplies.
Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.
Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.
— Xavier Dolan
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
Anybody is able to doubt me. I say, 'Come with your criticism to polish the diamond of the truth.' People need to wake up to their own power. Everybody has this nature.
Nature is so merciless - but so righteous.
I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.
— Willie Stargell
The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.
— William Shatner
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain.
— William Petty
Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument.
Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.
— William Lyon Phelps
In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.
Only by observing the laws of nature can mankind avoid costly blunders in its exploitation. Any harm we inflict on nature will eventually return to haunt us. This is a reality we have to face.
— Xi Jinping
I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.
— Wynn Bullock
Imagine how many aspects of nature we would miss if we lived on the surface of the sun. Without inventing refrigerators, we would only know gaseous matter and never observe liquids or solids, and miss the beauty of snowflakes.
— Wolfgang Ketterle
Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.
— Wislawa Szymborska
We are estranged from our own deeper physiology because we are no longer in contact with nature. Instead, we are controlling nature with air pollution, heating, technology. But you have to know you have a depth within yourself which needs to be stimulated. If it doesn't get stimulated it becomes weaker, like a muscle that's not being used any more.
That's what nature meant us to do, breathe deep when we are stressed.
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives.
— William Wilberforce
Nature is perfect.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
— William S. Burroughs
The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his notice. If he is great enough, he will exalt every subject which he treats.
The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.
