All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually.
Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason.
There are many different ways now to experience nature. Get out there and hike.
[P]salms are basically prayers and hymns, by their very nature they are addressed to God or express truth about God in song.
Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.
The division into whig and tory is founded in the nature of men; the weakly and nerveless, the rich and the corrupt, seeing more safety and accessibility in a strong executive; the healthy, firm, and virtuous, feeling confidence in their physical and moral resources, and willing to part with only so much power as is necessary for their good government; and, therefore, to retain the rest in the hands of the many, the division will substantially be into Whig and Tory.
What Nature bids is good, is wise, and faultless we obey.
Nature is one. It is not divided into physics, chemistry, quantum mechanics.
Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.
By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.
The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.
From dawn to dusk, winter to spring, summer & autumn; the contrasts of nature refresh the mind & renew our sense of balance
Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness, shall follow it whithersoever that shall go, and are of their nature divine and immortal.
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of step with others, studious idleness, the enjoyment of the major works of the mind–these are all privileges that cannot be bought because they are literally priceless.
Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.
Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.
