Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

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

Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she’s going to come around and whack you. You’ve got to be prepared.

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

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

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it’s like that, then I want out.