The havoc wrought by war, which one compares with the havoc wrought by nature, is not an unavoidable fate before which man stands helpless. The natural forces that are the cause of war are human passions, which it lies in our power to change. What are culture and civilization if not the taming of blind forces within us as well as in nature?
Only by observing the laws of nature can mankind avoid costly blunders in its exploitation. Any harm we inflict on nature will eventually return to haunt us. This is a reality we have to face.
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
I naively thought that we could have a molecular definition for life, come up with a set of genes that would minimally define life. Nature just refuses to be so easily quantified.
Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.
The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.
Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.
I was born with a romantic nature, and I'll carry it to my grave.
It's human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.
It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.
How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.
All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things.
The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject.
I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.
There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.
We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.
It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.
I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have.
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.
By nature, I was a little guy with big legs - a stocky lad.
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
Acting is an opportunity for me to try to explore and examine and expose humanity's weaknesses that are intrinsic to our nature as humans and learn from them; thereby, it's like a sociological expose.
A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness.
The nature of 'SNL' is that it's so in-the-moment.
I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.
Great art picks up where nature ends.
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.
