. . . shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm of Nature the sea is in many ways the most harmful to the stomach, with its great variety of dishes and tasty fish.
You might be a redneck if you've ever stood in line to get your picture taken with a freak of nature.
We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us.
One's appreciation of nature is never more acuet than when a bit of nature is injected into one's flesh.
Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature.
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
I'm a guy who comes from a small town in the Midwest. It's not in my nature to say the most explicit things in public.
Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and impressible for evil, and it is in the nature of things that he cannot really improve himself without in some degree improving other men.
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.
In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.
The nature of war is constant change.
Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.
So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
There are an awful lot of scientists today who believe that before very long we shall have unraveled all the secrets of the universe. There will be no puzzles anymore. To me, it'd be really, really tragic because I think one of the most exciting things is this feeling of mystery, feeling of awe, the feeling of looking at a little live thing and being amazed by it and how it has emerged through these hundreds of years of evolution and there it is and it is perfect and why.
Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.
Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature.
Nature is our chapel.