To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

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

If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.