England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.