Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated... →
Joseph Butler
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Samuel Butler
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
As a very small boy, my passion was nature, and I had pets - cats, a dog and a bunny rabbit - and I wrote a very small book called 'My Pets,'... →
Tony Buzan
My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot... →
A. S. Byatt
Winter is nature's way of saying, 'Up yours.'
Robert Byrne
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in... →
Lord Byron
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.