The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.

I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

Such is the audacity of man that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature yea and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature rather than being the lords over nature.

Abstraction is real probably more real than nature.

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

To make a love story you need a couple of young people but to reflect on the nature of love you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

Hidden nature is secret God.

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

It is hard I submit to loathe bloodshed including war more than I do but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature in her manner of operation.

Self-preservation nature's first great law all the creatures except man doth awe.

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

The skull is nature's sculpture.

I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person and with the innermost nature of human feeling.

Women by their nature are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

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