It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'
I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.
I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.
Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.
Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.
What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.
In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.
What he's done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It's beautifully realised - it's a beat film.
One thing you cannot control is nature.
It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.
The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.
By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.
Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature.
I love the idea of giving up the vengeful nature that so many of us have.
The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me - my mother's side of the family have awful legs.
Nature is extremely important to me. Which may be just about the only trouble I'll have in New York. I'll miss the trees!
Nature made him, and then broke the mold.
In general, I'm not much into etiquette and am a rule-breaker and rebel by nature.
It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.
Just by nature, we're always filled with so many ideas and want to cram as many ideas into a song as we can, and I think that gave us a lot of our signature sound.
Honestly, I'm not a big person in terms of religion, but I really believe in nature. I feel like anytime you see anything beautiful in nature that's the closest I'm ever going to get to God or a sense of a higher power.
God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
Whoever says he is starting from a given in nature may be right, and so is he who says he is starting from nothing!
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
All nature is but art unknown to thee.
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.
