Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.

Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature as well as the elements.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

I mean if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.

But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present I'm going to make something out of it.

Caught up in life you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist in my opinion is a monstrosity something outside of nature.

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued we would need no zoos at all.