Nature Quotes

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.

For the nature of women is closely allied to art

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

Now, as God the maker play'd he taught the game to Nature whom he created in his image; taught her the selfsame game which he played to her.

There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment.

But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.

Nature is a series of murders.

Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.

The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of Boucher.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.

Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.

When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.

We by art unteach what Nature taught.

Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there.

not judging truth to be in nature better than falsehood, but setting a value upon both according to interest.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.

We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion that marks the contemplation of a work of art.

It is our task in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.

I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers.

Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.

Nature is what you see plus what you think about it.

Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt.

The nature of the love between a parent and child really is literally stronger than death. As long as either person in that relationship is alive, that relationship is still alive.

The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.

But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.

There is religion in everything around us, - a calm and holy religion in the unbreathing things of Nature, which man would do well to imitate.

Once more the liberal year laughs out O'er richer stores than gems or gold: Once more with harvest song and shout Is nature's boldest triumph told.

[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.

Struggle is nature's way of strengthening it

I'm never trying to preach to anybody with my music, but I'm aware of the universal nature of the human experience and I try to reach out and connect with people in that manner.

Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave.

Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.

Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of Nature's fairest forms.

The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things.

It is in the nature of human beings to bend information in the direction of desired conclusions.

We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.

Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.

In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven.

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.

The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?

The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.

There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.

Strong impulses are but another name for energy. Energy may be turned to bad uses; but more good may always be made of an energetic nature, than of an indolent and impassive one.

I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.