Natures

Sharks are infamous for their bloodthirsty natures.

Love is like some fresh spring, that leaves its cresses, its gravel bed and flowers to become first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.

So long as you live in a civilized or thickly populated community you will still need to understand your own nature and the natures of other people.

Only the squirrels, the mice and the rabbits seemed to possess cheerful and merry natures.

They're not man enough to confront their sensitive inner natures.

In consequence, I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.

Born and bred on Poland's soil, son of a French father and a Polish mother, Frédéric Chopin (1809–1849) combined within himself two natures, each complementing the other, both uniting to form a personality not understood by every casual observer.

Through the intervening fortnight he ran about and smiled outwardly at his inward thoughts, as if they were people meeting and nodding to him—smiled with that singularly beautiful irradiation which is seen to spread on young faces at the inception of some glorious idea, as if a supernatural lamp were held inside their transparent natures, giving rise to the flattering fancy that heaven lies about them then.

Sally Boysen has been studying chimpanzee cognition for over 30 years. A psychologist at Ohio State University, she has focused on chimps' ability to understand numbers and tools, their ability to recognize loved ones, and their seemingly altruistic natures. In the near future, she hopes to teach them to read simple English words. She also really loves her chimps.

It's hard to get along with people who have different natures.