Pastoral Resources

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

For greed all nature is too little.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

All art is but imitation of nature.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy.

The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.

Our object in these remarks has been not only to account for the slow progress which has as yet been made by Political Economy, and to suggest means by which its advancement may be accelerated, but also to warn the reader of the nature of the following Treatise.

I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.

But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations.

But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.

We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.

I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.

When a girl's under 21, she's protected by law. When she's over 65, she's protected by nature. Anywhere in between she's fair game.

To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.