Nature Quotes

'Tis only from the selfishness and confin'd generosity of men, along with the scanty provision nature has made for his wants, that justice derives its origin.

David Hume
- Men
- Justice
- Generosity
A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.

P. D. James
- Great
- Death
- City

The story man must see clearly in his own mind how every piece of business will be put over. He should feel every expression, every reaction. He get far enough from his story to take a second look at it... to see whether there is any dead phase... to see whether the personalities are going to be interesting and appealing to the audience. He should also try to see that the things that his characters are doing are of an interesting nature.

Walt Disney
Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

Marquis de Sade
- Nature
Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.

Brian Ferneyhough
- Nature
- Success
- Failure
I like examining the ordinary, and by doing so, one hopefully reveals the extraordinary nature within.

Kevin Henkes
- Nature
First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it.

Philip Emeagwali
- Nature
Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

Phyllis Schlafly
- Nature
- Failure