"To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things." - Ansel AdamsTweet
"In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires." - Benjamin FranklinTweet
"A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion." - Umberto EcoTweet
"Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame." - TertullianTweet
"What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place." - Dominic MonaghanTweet
"The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself." - John Kenneth GalbraithTweet
"All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable." - Walt DisneyTweet
"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." - SallustTweet
"Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art." - Thomas HardyTweet
"A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils." - Margaret CavendishTweet