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The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

William Irwin Thompson

Science

People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.

I'm inspired by nature. Other artist's work is important for developing my perception.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build.

Michael Tilson Thomas

Nature

Collaboration

Trying

I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else.

John Tenniel

Nature

Work

But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.

I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful!

I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.

Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

Kenzo Tange

Nature