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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Happiness

Culture means control over nature.

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

Victor Hugo

Nature

Contrast

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

Victor Hugo

Nature

Woman

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.

Charles Brenton Huggins

Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.

Charles Brenton Huggins

Nature

Wrong

Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

Alan Hovhaness

Nature

God

Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

Alfred Edward Housman

Nature

Ability

Content

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.