Pastoral Resources

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them.

In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.

Nature is never finished.

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature.

With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.

Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful.

Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature.

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.