I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature and that man will be myself.

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every conceived notion follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads or you will learn nothing.

In nature we never see anything isolated but everything in connection with something else which is before it beside it under it and over it.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.