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Natural Man, in our current version, is a disgruntled adolescent.

Natural things are glorious, and to know them is glorious.

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

Nature always levies her tribute.

Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.

Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.

Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

Nature, by its very nature, is very brutal and unequal. However, Man has somehow managed to transform the nature of its brutality and inequality.

Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont.

Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling.

Natural play strengthens children's self-confidence and arouses their senses-their awareness of the world and all that moves in it, seen and unseen.

Nature abhors annihilation.

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.

Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal.

Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.

...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring.

Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces.

Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]

Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.

Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.

Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.

Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel

Nature confounds her summer distinctions at this season. The heavens seem to be nearer the earth. The elements are less reserved and distinct. Water turns to ice, rain to snow. The day is but a Scandinavian night. The winter is an arctic summer.

Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.

Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive her back. She breaks through every obstacle, pushes forward, and at last makes for herself a way.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.

Nature appears not to have intended that any flower should be fertilized by its own pollen.

Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists

Nature delights in progress; in advance.

Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.

Nature and wisdom are not, but should be, companions.

Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.

Nature, being a wise and provident lady, governs her parts very wisely, methodically, and orderly: Also, she is very industrious and hates to be idle, which makes her employ her time as a good housewife doth.

Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.

Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

Nature eventually has her own way, so perhaps the best procedure is to accept what old Mother Nature or God, if you will, dictates. Accept it and you'll get along better.

Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower; Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads.

Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.

Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature.

Nature has been mastering itself for some time now, and it is an honor to be able to capture its beauty.

Nature has but one plan of operation, invariably the same in the smallest things as well as in the largest, and so often do we see the smallest masses selected for use in Nature, that even enormous ones are built up solely by fitting these together. Indeed, all Nature's efforts are devoted to uniting the smallest parts of our bodies in such a way that all things whatsoever, however diverse they may be, which coalesce in the structure of living things construct the parts by means of a sort of compendium.

Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.

Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power.

Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.

Nature is accustomed to hide itself.