Pastoral Resources

You watched these people go through their lives and just had a feeling that they existed outside the usual laws of nature; that there was no other group so handsome, so engaged.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Mother Nature is not sweet.

I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile.

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can.

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface.

You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.