Pastoral Resources

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

Nature is neutral.

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest.

But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind.

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

What he's done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It's beautifully realised - it's a beat film.