No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

I mean you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something I think that's human nature.

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.

Cruelty is a part of nature at least of human nature but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

The beautiful spring came and when Nature resumes her loveliness the human soul is apt to revive also.

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation in arbitration but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.