Nature Quotes

Nature Quote of the day

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

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.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.

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

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.

Art, like Nature, has her monsters

Everything in excess Is opposed by nature.

Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender.

I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes, ) which nature cannot repair.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

Lovers, forget your love, And list the love of these, She a window flower, And he a winter breeze.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.

Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.

The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

Men argue. Nature acts.

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, -- he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me

the world is better withoutthem.only the plants and the animals aretrue comrades.I drink to them and withthem.

We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion on us.

It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings.

Nature hath no goal, though she hath law.

We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.

The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.