Nature in America does not arouse powerful emotions in me.
— Italo Calvino
Grandeur and sublimity, not softness, are the features of Estes Park. The glades which begin so softly are soon lost in the dark primaeval forests, with their peaks of rosy granite and their stretches of granite blocks piled and poised by nature in some mood of fury.
— Isabella Bird
Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made helpless even to live.
— Isaac Rosenberg
Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.
— Isaac Newton
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
— Isaac Asimov
I've made four films about the destructive nature of relationships, of secrets and lies, and I think I'm no longer interested in that subject - which is a wonderful relief.
— Ira Sachs
It is in the nature of Smaland to be thrifty.
— Ingvar Kamprad
Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.
— Imelda Staunton
For me, my music is part of me, and which is why it seems second nature, and my compositions are instinctive.
— Ilaiyaraaja
Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
— Ian Mckellen
The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
— Iain McGilchrist
In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
— Huston Smith
I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.
— Hunter S. Thompson
The fans know what's happened to me over the past couple of years. I lost my family. I pretty much got devastated financially and the fans know that I've had some hard times - and that's the nature of loyal fans. They want to see the people that they love and believe in get back on their feet.
— Hulk Hogan
Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.
— Hugh Miller
I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.
— Hugh Jackman
I know I'm not known as method. By nature I'm not a brooder. What I continue to use is a mixture of the English school, which is traditionally outside-in, and the more American way of working from the inside out.
As a kid in Africa, you were so connected to nature itself because you went farming, watched the moon out at night, observed how the sky was different, and how the birds chanted different songs in the evening and the morning.
— Ishmael Beah
When I was 7, I went to school in Switzerland because everyone on my mom's side of the family lives there. Then we were back in Australia, in Queensland. That's where we had the chance to have lots of different animals. I spent a lot of time living in nature and building cubby houses in big old trees by the ocean.
— Isabel Lucas
We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.
Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.
— Irwin Winkler
I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
— Ingrid Bergman
I can't begin to try to articulate the competitive nature I possess.
— Iman Shumpert
I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
— Idris Elba
I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.
— Ian Hunter
In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert.
— I. M. Pei
The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them.
New York is a character, all on its own, and whenever you film there, it becomes part of the show. That's just the nature of being there.
— Hunter Parrish
What's true will never contradict what's true. Article 2 of the Belgic Confession, based on Psalm 19, Romans 1, and several other texts, declares that God has given us two reliable revelations: the words of Scripture and the facts of nature. Thus, it would be impossible for the facts of nature ever to contradict the words of the Bible.
— Hugh Ross
I have a major respect for nature. I'm an environmentalist.
— Hugh Masekela
That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.
I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.
— Hugh Hefner
Above Hilo, broad lands sweeping up cloudwards, with their sugar cane, kalo, melons, pine-apples, and banana groves suggest the boundless liberality of Nature.
I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
— Isabel Allende
It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
— Iris Murdoch
I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.
— Ira Glass
It's the nature of a human that when you get neglected somewhere, you want to go back and prove a point.
— Imran Tahir
By nature, I was a little guy with big legs - a stocky lad.
— Ilya Ilyin
It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.
— Ibrahim Babangida
Any skills that I have, I couldn't really make money with them. I would like to think that maybe I would be doing something in psychology or something of that nature because I love that vein of medicine - the getting down and getting nitty-gritty.
— Ian Harding
I have a great love for nature. That must have started somewhere down back home, I think, because my family own one of the better known gardens in Soochow, so I played there, and I lived there, and so I must have absorbed something there. So I continue to have a great interest in nature.
I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.
I am, by nature, a guitar player... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.
— Hunter Hayes
The age of the Earth makes no difference with respect to Christ's atoning sacrifice for humanity's sin or to the nature and character of God, Earth's age has no bearing on any of the historic Christian doctrines. No mention of Earth's age appears in even the most detailed creedal statements.
I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature - the lameness, the scarred Byronic hero.
— Hugh Laurie
By nature I'm not a brooder.
