When one looks at Nature through the glass walls of the Farnsworth House, it takes on a deeper significance than when one stands outside. More of Nature is thus expressed - it becomes part of a greater whole.
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.
— Ludovico Ariosto
A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature.
— Lucy Larcom
No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment.
The earliest movies that I loved were French movies and Italian movies. I grew up watching those kind of movies and often find the truest looks at human nature - you can find them in another country's movies.
— Lucy Fisher
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art.
— Lucian Freud
The nature of the internet is that you don't know who is behind the screen.
— Louise Mensch
The problem of the tall office building is one of the most stupendous, one of the most magnificent opportunities that the Lord of Nature in His beneficence has ever offered to the proud spirit of man.
— Louis Sullivan
How does nature amplify the intelligence of groups? It forms swarms.
— Louis B. Rosenberg
Study nature, not books.
— Louis Agassiz
When a dragonfly flutters by, you may not realize, but it's the greatest flier in nature. It can hover, fly backwards, even upside down.
— Louie Schwartzberg
What I want to do with my filmmaking is help kids experience the truth and wisdom of nature no matter where they are, whether or not they have the opportunity to go to a national park.
I'm Jewish and respect the traditions of Judaism, but through all the time I've spent photographing nature, I also have a deep appreciation for the power of the universe. No, not the power of the universe, but just celebrating life.
I realized that nature had invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward, as a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life. Rarely seen by the naked eye, this intersection between the animal world and the plant world is truly a magic moment.
I think it is about time that equipped women began to take on some of the ethical questions which a male-dominated culture has produced and dissect and analyze them quite to pieces in a serious fashion. It is time that 'half the human race' had something to say about the nature of its existence.
— Lorraine Hansberry
It must be possible to solve the task of controlling nature and yet simultaneously create a new freedom.
Nature made him, and then broke the mold.
Whoever claims to understand another person completely, is either entirely ignorant of himself, or else has a nature so small that he can measure it easily, and supposes it to be the standard of every other nature.
Whether rich or poor, a home is not a home unless the roots of love are ever striking deeper through the crust of the earthly and the conventional, into the very realities of being, not consciously always; seldom, perhaps; the simplicity of loving grows by living simply near nature and God.
My parents always traveled a lot with their job, so it became embedded in my nature quite early on that I would crave that constant change and traveling.
— Lucy Boynton
For greed all nature is too little.
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
— Luc de Clapiers
In the rush of today's world, and with more than half of us now living in cities, the majority of people are less and less connected with the spectacle of nature.
— Louise Leakey
A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
— Louis Nizer
Beyond individual intelligence, nature has also cultivated intelligence through swarms. For example, bees, birds and fish act in a more intelligent way when acting together as a swarm, flock or school.
The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.
With high-speed cameras, we can do the opposite of time lapse. We can shoot images that are thousands of times faster than our vision. And we can see how nature's ingenious devices work, and perhaps we can even imitate them.
I grew up in Brooklyn, and my parents were Holocaust survivors, so they never taught me anything about nature, but they taught me a lot about gratitude.
I think we need to do some deep soul searching about what's important in our lives and renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking, whether it's through faith-based religion or just through loving nature or helping your fellow man.
Every time anybody in Washington talks about legal status, amnesty, anything of that nature, it becomes a magnet that lures people in quickly into the United States.
— Louie Gohmert
I know what it's like to be denied opportunity based on the nature of your skin.
— Lori Lightfoot
We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.
Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
Everything in nature has its own intrinsic charm, as the work of its Creator's hand; but the chief beauty of the whole lies in its suggested relations to humanity. Things announce and wait for persons. The house would not have been thus beautifully built and furnished, except for an expected tenant.
But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that.
— Lucy Hale
It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that strength of mind and force of character are the supreme rulers of human affairs.
— Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
All art is but imitation of nature.
During one new moon at perigee, I stood on high ground, watching salt ponds overflow, cover the beach, and meet the ocean. Because the moon was invisible, the water was black as it drowned the sand, and the event felt primal - which in fact it was, because it was nature.
— Luanne Rice
I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.
— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Nature creates natural swarms. UNU uses networking technology and algorithms to take advantage of the knowledge, wisdom, and insights of a large group of people by allowing them to think as one.
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
— Louis Aragon
Nature's beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.
I love all of the ecosystems - mountains, deserts, rainforests. They're beautiful, and nature has so many different flavors to it.
I became passionate about nature filmmaking when I graduated from UCLA, and one of the things I always wanted to do was shoot really high quality film, so I got into time-lapse photography - so that means when you shoot a flower, you're shooting, like, one frame every twenty minutes, so that's basically two seconds of a film per day.
Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.
If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included.
— Lorrie Moore
