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But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.

Oliver Stone

Director · American · b. 1946

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

Orison Swett Marden

Writer · American

Nature has always had more force than education.

Voltaire

Writer · French · 1694 – 1778

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Statesman · Roman

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

Zane Grey

Author · American · 1872 – 1939

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

William Ellery Channing

Writer · American · 1780 – 1842

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

William Ralph Inge

Clergyman · English · 1860 – 1954

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Politician · American · 1900 – 1965

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

Samuel Johnson

Author · English · 1709 – 1784

There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.

Jack Kingston

Politician · American · b. 1955

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

Henry Miller

Author · American · 1891 – 1980

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

John Dewey

Philosopher · American · 1859 – 1952

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

Harold Pinter

Dramatist · English · b. 1930

The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Clergyman · American · 1869 – 1942

We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment.

Helmut Jahn

Architect · b. 1940

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Baruch Spinoza

Philosopher · 1632 – 1677

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

President · American · 1882 – 1945

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

Henry David Thoreau

Author · American · 1817 – 1862

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Novelist · French · 1900 – 1944

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Author · American

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

W. Somerset Maugham

Playwright · British · 1874 – 1965

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

Baltasar Gracian

Philosopher · Spanish · 1601 – 1658

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Blaise Pascal

Philosopher · French · 1623 – 1662

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Iris Murdoch

Author · Irish · 1919 – 1999

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

Nicolas de Chamfort

Writer · French

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Albert Einstein

Physicist · German · 1879 – 1955

We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.

James Lovelock

Scientist · English · b. 1919

Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Scientist · Polish · 1473 – 1543

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

Thomas Aquinas

Theologian · Italian

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

Kevin Kelly

Editor · American

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

Charles Caleb Colton

Writer · English

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

Robert Browning

Poet · English · 1812 – 1889

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

Samuel Butler

Poet · British · 1835 – 1902

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

Thomas Huxley

Scientist · English · 1825 – 1895

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

Joseph Campbell

Author · American · 1904 – 1987

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

Michelangelo

Artist · Italian · 1475 – 1564

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

Doug Coupland

Author · Canadian · b. 1961

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet · German · 1749 – 1832

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

Phyllis Schlafly

Activist · American · b. 1924

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

Bodhidharma

Leader · Indian

Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.

Jim Harrison

Writer · American · b. 1937

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Plato

Philosopher · Greek

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Ansel Adams

Photographer · American · 1902 – 1984

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

Horace

Poet · Roman

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.

Helen Rowland

Writer · American

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

Joseph Conrad

Novelist · Polish · 1857 – 1924

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poet · American · 1803 – 1882

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

Muhammad Iqbal

Poet · Pakistani · 1877 – 1938

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