„Nature was my kindergarten.“

„Our children will be forced to learn that homosexuality is normal and natural and that perhaps they should try it, and that'll be very soon in our public schools all across the state, beginning in kindergarten.“

—  Michele Bachmann American politician 1956

Prophetic Views Behind The News
KKMS 980-AM
Radio
2004-03-06, hosted by Jan Markell
on what would happen if a proposed Minnesota state constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage failed to pass
2000s

„My wife, my child, my music, Nature and the sun; they are my happiness.“

—  Richard Strauss German composer and orchestra director 1864 - 1949

written on the sketches for his Domestic Symphony. Charles Youmans, Mahler and Strauss in Dialogue, Indiana University press (2016), found on page 60.
Other sources

„My concern is with the rhythms of nature... I work inside out, like nature.“

—  Jackson Pollock American artist 1912 - 1956

Quoted in Leonhard Emmerling (2003) Jackson Pollock: 1912-1956 Taschen, p. 48
in posthumous publications

„I'm fine with Nature's way, as long as Nature keeps it out of *my* way.“

—  Rachel Caine American writer 1962

„Easily moved by beauty—such is my nature.“

—  Ryōkan Japanese Buddhist monk 1758 - 1831

As translated in Great Fool: Zen Master Ryōkan; Poems, Letters, and Other Writings (1996) by Ryūichi Abé and Peter Haskel, p. 117
Kontext: Easily moved by beauty—such is my nature.
I take a few phrases
and they just turn into poems

„My hair is naturally blonde… Just for the record. ~ Jace“

—  Cassandra Clare, kniha City of Bones

Zdroj: City of Bones

„My dream is to save women from nature.“

—  Christian Dior French fashion designer 1905 - 1957

Zdroj: Newsweek, Vol. 50, Nr 19-26, (1957), p. 44

„My mother says looking is the nature of wisdom.“

—  Rick Riordan, kniha The Battle of the Labyrinth

Zdroj: The Battle of the Labyrinth

„But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.“

—  René Descartes French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist 1596 - 1650

„Rest, nature, books, music…such is my idea of happiness.“

—  Leo Tolstoy Russian writer 1828 - 1910

„My purpose is to explain, not the meaning of words, but the nature of things.“

—  Baruch Spinoza, kniha Ethics

Ethics (1677)
Originál: (la) Meum institutum non est verborum significationem sed rerum naturam explicare

„Learning an imposed method seemed not in my nature“

—  Yehudi Menuhin American violinist and conductor 1916 - 1999

Quote from his autobiography,Unfinished Journey”

„So, my instrument there is simply bamboo. The sound is straight from nature and it connects me to nature.“

—  Hariprasad Chaurasia Indian bansuri player 1938

„Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.“

—  Frank Lloyd Wright American architect (1867-1959) 1867 - 1959

„The aim of my work: The study of nature, the love of nature's art, and the need to express what one feels in one's heart.“

—  Émile Gallé French glass artist and cabinetmaker 1846 - 1904

Ecrits pour l'art, ed. Henrietta Galle Paris 1908/Marseille (1980).

„The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature.“

—  George Henry Lewes British philosopher 1817 - 1878

Rose, Blanche, and Violet (London: Smith, Elder, 1848) vol. 1, pp. viii-ix
Kontext: The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced — that without intelligence we should be Brutes — but it is the tendency of our gaping, wondering dispositions to give pre-eminence to those faculties which most astonish us. Strength of character seldom, if ever, astonishes; goodness, lovingness, and quiet self-sacrifice, are worth all the talents in the world.

„I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.“

—  Paolo Veronese Italian painter of the Renaissance 1523 - 1588

Unsourced variant translation: I paint my pictures with such judgment as I have and as seems fitting.
Testimony to the Inquisition, (1573)

„Though I myself am an atheist, I openly profess religion in the sense just mentioned, that is, a nature religion. I hate the idealism that wrenches man out of nature; I am not ashamed of my dependency on nature; I openly confess that the workings of nature affect not only my surface, my skin, my body, but also my core, my innermost being, that the air I breathe in bright weather has a salutary effect not only on my lungs but also on my mind, that the light of the sun illumines not only my eyes but also my spirit and my heart. And I do not, like a Christian, believe that such dependency is contrary to my true being or hope to be delivered from it. I know further that I am a finite moral being, that I shall one day cease to be. But I find this very natural and am therefore perfectly reconciled to the thought.“

—  Ludwig Feuerbach German philosopher and anthropologist 1804 - 1872

Lecture V, R. Manheim, trans. (1967), pp. 35-36
Lectures on the Essence of Religion http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/feuerbach/works/lectures/index.htm (1851)

„It is not in my nature, some of my critics would rather say, not in my power, to dispute on behalf of any opinion, even my own, very obstinately.“

—  Matthew Arnold English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools 1822 - 1888

Preface to the Second Edition (1869)
Essays in Criticism (1865)
Kontext: It is not in my nature, some of my critics would rather say, not in my power, to dispute on behalf of any opinion, even my own, very obstinately. To try and approach truth on one side after another, not to strive or cry, nor to persist in pressing forward, on any one side, with violence and self-will, — it is only thus, it seems to me, that mortals may hope to gain any vision of the mysterious Goddess, whom we shall never see except in outline, but only thus even in outline. He who will do nothing but fight impetuously towards her on his own, one, favourite, particular line, is inevitably destined to run his head into the folds of the black robe in which she is wrapped.