Nature Quotes

Human beings are the center of the universe from only one perspective, and that is our own.

We know nothing of humility by nature, for we are all born proud.

Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.

A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.

Men are not narrow in their intellectual interests by nature; it takes special and rigorous training to accomplish that end.

Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Thy plain and open nature sees mankind But in appearance, not what they are.

Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

What would I do without you? I'd die of stress and depression before nature killed me.

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it.

Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.

All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.

Power is of an encroaching nature.

In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature.

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society.

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.

Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.

Arbitrage human nature. It's not going to change any time soon.

Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.

Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.

Nature is very rarely right, to such an extent even, that it might almost be said that nature is usually wrong.

The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship

Primates are very territorial. It is in their nature to protect their food resources as well as their females and young.

It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week.

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

His puppyhood was a period of foolish rebellion. He was always worsted, but he fought back because it was his nature to fight back. And he was unconquerable.

How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face or a fine hand does in a minute!

Do console your poor friend, who is so troubled to see his paintings so miserable, so sad, next to the radiant nature he has before his eyes!

Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].

Pregnancy humbles husbands. After an initial rush of male pride they quickly recognise the minor role that nature had assigned them in the drama of reproduction.

No matter how happy anyone is with their choices, I believe it's human nature to wonder about the path not taken.

Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.

Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances.

Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.

Skepticism is my nature, freethought is my methodology, agnosticism is my conclusion after 25 years of being in the ministry, and atheism is my opinion.

African American writers and artists, by the very nature of what they do, will actually enhance or bring together people in a way that might be very, very healthy.

I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to be a novel - it couldn't work as a story.

All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.

Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues

I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.

Go to nature with no parti pris. You should not know what your picture is to look like until it is done. Just see the picture that is coming.

I want to talk about the nature of human beings or how we're evolving as a race.

Everywhere you go, mother nature's throwing some curve-ball at you.

The typical nature photograph shows a butterfly on a pretty flower. The conservation photograph shows the same thing, but with a bulldozer coming at it in the background.

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.

All is born of water; all is sustained by water.

The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.