"Culture means control over nature"

"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease"

"Nature and wisdom never are at strife"

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him"

"We cannot command Nature except by obeying her"

"We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans"

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"

"The sound of the human voice is the best of nature but only if it comes out from the feelings"

"Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail"

"Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future"

"No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive"