Pastoral Resources

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.

The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.

I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.

Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.

Nature made the fields and man the cities.

Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.

There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Water is the driving force of all nature.