The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
— Edward Gibbon
The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions.
— Edward Forbes
Like all animals, human beings have always taken what they want from nature. But we are the rogue species. We are unique in our ability to use resources on a scale and at a speed that our fellow species can't.
— Edward Burtynsky
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
— Edward Abbey
If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it.
— Eduardo Galeano
There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
— Edouard Manet
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
— Edmund Burke
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
— Edith Hamilton
I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
— Edgar Ramirez
If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature.
— Eddie Vedder
This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.
— Ed Helms
You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.
— Earl Warren
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
— E. O. Wilson
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
— E. M. Forster
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
— e. e. cummings
I think sometimes soap acting gets an unfair label for being bad and over the top. The lessons I learned there were so valuable. Seeing yourself every day on television, you learned what worked and didn't work, what was bad acting and what wasn't. Memorizing scripts became second nature.
— Dylan Bruce
I love the 'what if' nature of sci-fi.
— Duncan Jones
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.
— Edward Dahlberg
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
— Edvard Munch
Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.
My god is all gods in one. When I see a beautiful sunset, I worship the god of Nature; when I see a hidden action brought to light, I worship the god of Truth; when I see a bad man punished and a good man go free, I worship the god of Justice; when I see a penitent forgiven, I worship the god of Mercy.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
— Edgar Allan Poe
I'm by nature someone that quite likes to understand how things are working, likes some sense of structure, and I've fallen into the worst possible trade for that.
— Eddie Redmayne
My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and I found I really liked being outdoors.
— Ed Begley, Jr.
To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.
— E. Stanley Jones
When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
— E. L. Doctorow
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
— E. B. White
I played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around with a guitar that was larger than I was, and it became almost second nature to me.
— Dwight Yoakam
'Warcraft' by its very nature is epic in scale.
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
Berlin has a uniquely haunting nature, symbolic of a problematic system that was created to oppress and divide a nation.
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
Rio is an energetic, vibrant place, full of beauty and nature. But we face the kinds of problems any developing metropolis does - with pollution, traffic congestion, poverty. Distribution of green areas, for example, is not uniform. Madureira, the heart of the suburb in Rio, is a concrete jungle.
— Eduardo Paes
Here in the United States, corporations has human rights. And then why not - why not nature also, if corporations can defend themselves, saying, 'We have human rights?' Well, let's admit that nature also should be protected.
The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that of all corporeality along with it, including the actuality of my body, the body of the cognizing subject.
— Edmund Husserl
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
I'm acting for the same reasons I wanted to become a diplomat. I've thought about it a lot and concluded that I wanted to become a diplomat because it was a way to explore human nature. For the same reason that at one point in college, I wanted to be a sociologist.
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.
— Ed Koch
Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.
— Eckhart Tolle
God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.
England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
— E. F. Schumacher
I was lucky in the sense that I was never blessed with an overly reflective nature.
— Dylan Moran
Warhol was definitely an inspiration when I was younger. I wouldn't quantify his sort of influence. I've been influenced by nature and science, and I've been influenced by people like Ernst and Rauschenberg, Cornell and Bosch and Bruegel, by writers like Haruki Murakami to Pablo Neruda to Artaud.
— Dustin Yellin
