"I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind." - Robert FulghumTweet
"Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another." - Joseph AddisonTweet
"I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being." - Martha GrahamTweet
"Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished." - Francis BaconTweet
"What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it." - Isaac Bashevis SingerTweet
"It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness." - Taylor CaldwellTweet
"Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves." - Jean-Jacques RousseauTweet
"When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic." - Barack ObamaTweet
"The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only." - Marquis de SadeTweet
"As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility." - Arnold J. ToynbeeTweet