I'm not one of those who can listen to music and write. I need the door closed. Windows shut. Facing the wall. No birds tweeting, views of nature, and so forth.
During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.
I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
I told myself, 'When I grow up, I want to make pictures that can inspire and nourish people.' Immediately, when I was 10, I started photographing nature. I built a darkroom. My first really good darkroom, not just down in the cellar, was when I was 14.
Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
I'm very rarely in the gym. My workouts are predominantly outside, in nature.
Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, 'convulsions of nature,' etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God's love.
My dream is to save women from nature.
You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game.
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre.
Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
If you develop a dialogue with me and take an interest in me, I'll want to give you the business. It's human nature.
The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me.
The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it.
I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.
The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.
I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.
I've always wanted to answer all the questions that nature posed for us.
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second.
The human element should be the two players on the court, not the officials. The best officials are the ones you never notice. The nature of the game made officials too noticeable a part.
Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.
Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization, I'm always appalled by 'me, me, me.'
Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
Global equations undergo changes, this is their nature.
You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story.
Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.
I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
