For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.

When you surround yourself with nature, it's really powerful.

I'm a flirt by nature, and I like flirting with that line of what's passable and what's not, and I genuinely don't believe that I cross it.

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun.

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

In nature there are few sharp lines.

Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself.

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring?

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.

Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

I believe our legacy will be defined by the accomplishments and fearless nature by which our daughters and sons take on the global challenges we face. I also wonder if perhaps the most lasting expression of one's humility lies in our ability to foster and mentor our children.

Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.

Nature does nothing in vain.

You can't just let nature run wild.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

Rising inequality is not a law of nature - it's not even a law of economics. It is a consequence of political and economic arrangements, and those arrangements can be changed.

It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

Forest restoration is a challenging and complex undertaking of raising young trees, transplanting them, and then cultivating them year in, year out in the face of harsh challenges of nature; it is a gigantic nature transformation project to turn all the mountains of the country into 'treasure mountains,' into 'gold mountains.'

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.