A arte é um resumo da natureza feito pela imaginação.

A natureza é o único livro que oferece um conteúdo valioso em todas as suas folhas.

O mundo tornou-se perigoso, porque os homens aprenderam a dominar a natureza antes de se dominarem a si mesmos.

Cada dia a natureza produz o suficiente para nossa carência. Se cada um tomasse o que lhe fosse necessário, não havia pobreza no mundo e ninguém morreria de fome.

A natureza nunca nos engana; somos sempre nós que nos enganamos.

Em todas as coisas da natureza existe algo de maravilhoso.

Só se pode vencer a natureza obedecendo-lhe.

Não devemos ter medo de inventar seja o que for. Tudo o que existe em nós existe também na natureza, pois fazemos parte dela.

Nunca a natureza é tão aviltada como quando a ignorância supersticiosa tem a arma do poder.

Adopte o ritmo da natureza. O segredo dela é a paciência.

O belo é uma manifestação de leis secretas da natureza, que, se não se revelassem a nós por meio do belo, permaneceriam eternamente ocultas.

A sabedoria da natureza é tal que não produz nada de supérfluo ou inútil.

O sonho e a esperança são dois calmantes que a natureza concede ao ser humano.

A natureza esconde seu segredo porque é sublime, não por astúcia.

Tudo o que nasce deve morrer, passando pela natureza em direção à eternidade.

A alegria de ver e entender é o mais perfeito dom da natureza.

A verdade literária nunca poderá ser a verdade da natureza.

Embora seja curta a vida que nos é dada pela natureza, é eterna a memória de uma vida bem empregada.

A natureza concedeu aos grandes homens a faculdade de fazer e aos outros a de julgar.

Se uma planta não consegue viver de acordo com sua natureza, ela morre, assim também um homem.

I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.

I'm glad I don't live in Primrose Hill any more. I couldn't even walk through the park. You never invite that kind of attention.

Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around.

We've carried that over into the visual development as well. We've designed quite an exotic cast of characters, but the last thing we want is to dictate to the players how their PCs should look. What we want to do is inspire.

I read the papers, I surf the Web. At the beginning of the year, I try to see at least two episodes of every show on our network. Am I surfing? All the time. I'm aware of the landscape. I'm a competitor, so I have to know whom I'm competing with.

Turmoil is everywhere, and the whole world is waiting for solutions to come from the top down. That's not how it works - community change from the bottom up makes a real difference.

Choices determine character.

Freedom of religion requires not only freeing religion from undue government regulation and interference. It also requires freeing religion from discrimination and from vile acts of hatred and persecution.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

We need to fight for the equal rights of citizens.

You have to grow! You grow as a person, and then you will grow in business.

Now my son Travis wants to finish all of his schooling online and be a full-time actor. I said, 'Hey, it's not all riding bicycles and egging cars and houses. Why don't you go finish the seventh grade, and we'll talk about it later.'

My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.

Theres been spying for years theres been surveillance for years and so forth Im not going to pass judgement on that its the nature of our society.

Musically, I have my project, '30058.' It's seven songs, like an EP or mixtape, but I call it a soundtrack because I feel like my life is a movie, and all the songs are moments in my life.

The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate.

All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact.

I am certain more emergency supplemental bills will be needed before this process is concluded. In fact, there is a point I have repeated several times recently which keeps the enormity of this situation in perspective.

The story of Pakistan, its struggle and its achievement, is the very story of great human ideals, struggling to survive in the face of great odds and difficulties.

I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.

I love documentary because it's alive.

Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.

It's taken a long time but eventually when I had the songs in place and demos right and I found myself a manager, that's when everything started happening quickly but I think that's always the way it is.

My father always told me, you can only be your own best. In other words, if you feel you've done your best, you've done well enough.