#nature

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#comes #course #death #gifted #him

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity! ↗

— George A. Smith

#does #find #himself #his #man

Mother Nature is not sweet. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#mother nature #nature #sweet

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

#get #i #ideas #majesty #nature

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

#ease #gratitude #imperfect #least #lighten

The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#common #corresponding #different #different elements #effect

You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

#development #even #exactly #go #hindrance

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing. ↗

— Ben Stein

#animal #basic #being #breathing #eating

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#imitation #interesting #more #nature

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#annual #dear #her #poor #preparing