The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.
— Charles Eastman
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
— Charles Dickens
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
— Charles Darwin
It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.
— Charles Churchill
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
— Charles Baudelaire
Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
Education from the lowest to the highest form must have for its object the training of the individual so that, in seeking the fullest satisfaction of his own nature, he will harmoniously perform his function as a member of a corporate society.
— Charles A. Beard
I didn't leave Wall Street because the work was against my nature - I do have a pretty good head for numbers. I left because I had this love for writing.
— Chang-Rae Lee
And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.
— Chaim Potok
A dog is a vehicle, you know; a dog is a window to Mother Nature, and that's the closest species we have.
— Cesar Millan
Cable news, by its very nature, by its formula, is very guest-heavy.
— Cenk Uygur
I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle. It's important to feel good with your body. The body is extremely important. If you feel good, you have more energy in your singing.
— Cecilia Bartoli
Nature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don't have a real relationship to it unless it's people living off the land and killing our own food and going for it.
— Catherine Opie
I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.
— Cass Sunstein
Nature is a big part of my weekend. Whenever possible, I take Friday and Monday off and spend four days outdoors. We should remind ourselves that there was something here before us, a force more powerful than us.
— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.
— Carroll Quigley
I feel like I live a pretty quiet life. I like to focus on work and friends, and I love being in nature.
— Carrie Brownstein
There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.
— Charles Brenton Huggins
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
As a Korean War Veteran, I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention.
— Charles B. Rangel
Lincoln was a supreme politician. He understood politics because he understood human nature.
The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.
— Chaka Fattah
By 'justice', I understand nothing more than that bond which is necessary to keep the interest of individuals united, without which men would return to their original state of barbarity. All punishments which exceed the necessity of preserving this bond are, in their nature, unjust.
— Cesare Beccaria
I was blessed to grow up on a farm, and when you're a farm boy, exercise is part of your lifestyle. Like it or not, that environment makes you work out. On the farm, nature is your gym. You walk and run and swim and have to do a lot of work with animals too.
My mother is deeply pragmatic by nature. Perhaps you had to be, as an immigrant. You made do.
— Celeste Ng
Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.
— Cecil Frank Powell
My father is a big believer in nature over nurture.
— Cassandra Clare
I love songs because by nature they are concise; they sum up. I try to use as few words as possible. It's usually funnier that way, anyway.
— Cass McCombs
To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.
— Cary Fowler
Laws, especially those of a constitutional nature like the Basic Law, which have been formulated through reasonable legislative processes, should never be freely interpreted or lightly abandoned.
— Carrie Lam
I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to music and take lots and lots of walks. Nature is a nice reset button for me, it's how I get a lot of thinking done.
Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.
— Charles D. Broad
Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation.
So many times, people told me I can't do this or can't do that. My nature is that I don't listen very well. I'm very determined, and I believe in myself. My parents brought me up that way. Thank God for that. I don't let anything stand in my way.
— Chantal Sutherland
Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.
We try to respond as closely as we can to the nature of each city, to the traditions, to their expectations. I don't believe that architects should be imposing their style or their plans on every city in the world.
— Cesar Pelli
I think President Obama is not progressive. And I know a lot of people hate to hear that; it breaks their heart. But that's the reality. It's not in his nature. His nature is pro-establishment. If he had a wrestling nickname, it would be The Establishment.
I am not a contest-enterer by nature. But contests - and their entry fees - are often the main way literary journals raise money to, you know, publish their issues. So entering contests helps support the journal, which also helps support the writers they publish.
To be sure, technology will change what we do. Tasks that are highly manual, routine, and predictable will be automated. But jobs are made up of many tasks. So the nature of existing jobs will change, and new careers will be created.
— Cathy Engelbert
What's disgusting about genetic modification of food? I speculate that many people have an immediate, intuitive sense that what's healthy is what's 'natural,' and that efforts to tamper with nature will inevitably unleash serious risks - so-called Frankenfoods. The problem with that speculation is that it's flat-out wrong.
I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.
— Caspar David Friedrich
It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.
— Carrot Top
So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought he was trying to get out of treating me. But he was also responding to the chaotic nature of my life.
— Carrie Fisher
