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Why does a bear shit in the woods?" he demanded. "Because it is his nature. Lying comes as easily as breathing to a man
— George R R Martin
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
— Matthew Arnold
It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding
— Jacob Bronowski
Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man.
— Thomas Browne
A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, or at least birds and women, abhorred the invisible man.
— Jonathan Lethem
A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A man shall never be enriched by envy.
— Thomas Draxe
Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way.
— Muhammad Ali
Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.
— Pablo Picasso
If you're smart or rich or lucky
Maybe you'll beat the laws of man
But the inner laws of spirit
And the outer laws of nature
No man can — Joni Mitchell
Maybe you'll beat the laws of man
But the inner laws of spirit
And the outer laws of nature
No man can — Joni Mitchell
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
— Denis Diderot
But it's my reading of human nature that a man will cheat in his trade, but not in his hobby.
— G.K. Chesterton
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
— Edmund Burke
I would say probably my most alpha quality is my competitive nature. I'm very competitive, and it tends to bring out very much the man in me.
— Ashton Kutcher
It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.
— Publilius Syrus
There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.
— Zora Neale Hurston
The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.
— Milan Kundera
Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature.
Lyanna — George R R Martin
Lyanna — George R R Martin
And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.
— Chaim Potok
It is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things.
— Mary Martha Sherwood
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.
— Seneca The Younger
People are trying to decide whether the man-made disaster is worse than Mother Nature's disaster.
— Larry Sabato
Nature is the line; those who are under it, we call them as man; above it, we call them as God!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.
— John Le Carre
Man's obsession with his own wants is taking him further from those without whom happiness cannot be found. It is taking him from his people.
— Anasazi Foundation
And yet, it was not in her nature to question the veracity of a young man of such amiable appearance as Wickham.
— Jane Austen
The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.
— George Dana Boardman Pepper
Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.
— Thomas Jefferson
The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.
— Sargent Shriver
It is the monotony of his own nature that makes a man find solitude intolerable.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
There is nothing in man or nature that does not ask questions.
— Curtis Bill Pepper
Man i s given by Nature, a gift, and that gift is the privilege of labor. Through labor he learns all things.
— Manly P. Hall
Living in sterile man-made environments that are disconnected from nature should be expected to lead to sickness.
— Steven Magee
The new media are not bridges between man and nature; they are nature.
— Marshall McLuhan
The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.
— Joni Mitchell
Character is what a man is in the dark
— D.L. Moody
Nature includes all of the universe and man is not only a part of nature, he is in it up to his neck.
— N.J. Berrill
Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.
— Eric Hoffer
Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man.
— Herbert Hoover
One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
— E.F. Schumacher
Any man that walks the mead
In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find,
According as his humors lead,
A meaning suited to his mind. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find,
According as his humors lead,
A meaning suited to his mind. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Every man ought to plant a tree.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life,
Musing is solitude — William Wordsworth
Musing is solitude — William Wordsworth
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
— Cyril Connolly
Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did.
— Elizabeth Kolbert
Before God the work of man will be judged by the spirit in which it is done, not by the nature of the work which makes no difference whatsoever.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Man in a word has no nature; what he has..is history.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.
— James D. Carswell
The selfishness of humanity is rooted in the self-destructive nature of man through sin. Romans 6:23
— Felix Wantang
Nature attains perfection, but man never does.
— Eric Hoffer
The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals
— Swami Vivekananda
My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.
— G.I. Gurdjieff
Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
— Alan Bleasdale
Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
— Maria Montessori
Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
— Thomas Carlyle
It takes a strong woman to tolerate a weak man. That said, it takes a strong man to tolerate a weak woman, too.
— Cathy Burnham Martin
Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
— Pliny The Elder
More inhumanity (to man) has been done by man himself than any other of nature's causes.
— Samuel Von Pufendorf
Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.
— Hans Jonas
Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade.
— K. Hari Kumar
Nothing cruel is in fact beneficial; for cruelty is extremely hostile to the nature of man, which we ought to follow.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
It's the nature of man to ask questions.
Belgarath — David Eddings
Belgarath — David Eddings
The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.
— Thomas Aquinas
The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.
— William James
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit
or a mask. — William Hazlitt
or a mask. — William Hazlitt
Man is not the owner of mind but only a user. The nature owns mind, man hires only a small portion of it that too for a brief period.
— Thiruman Archunan
His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN! — William Shakespeare
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN! — William Shakespeare
Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.
— William Winwood Reade
Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.
— Hans Morgenthau
A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature.
— John Taylor
Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.
— Simone De Beauvoir
In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
It isn't bad judgment to make a man believe he is something. He is by nature inclined to it, and a little encouragement is good for most people.
— Kate Langley Bosher
Man himself is a mysterious object, and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millennia.
— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Man is not above nature, but in nature.
— Ernst Haeckel
Men argue. Nature acts.
— Voltaire