Nature Quotes

But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.

We must develop a better sense of responsibilty towards our total environment

I figured out some basic stuff: that form and colour defines your perception of the nature of an object, whether or not it is intended to.

In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.

There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.

Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature.

By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.

Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

When you reach that kind of successful pinnacle, it is the nature of the business and the press and everything that they go about tearing you down.

I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do.

The ocean is 20 minutes away. Nature surrounds me 24/7. I wake up to the sounds of birds chirping. I also love that I can go out to dinner in jeans and flip-flops.

Man is a fugitive from nature.

Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails.

If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.

There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.

We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea.

The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren't paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

I have learned from nature that all is equal... all is equal and in balance. I see everything as fitting together.

The woods seemed all answer and healing and more than enough to live for.

Whatever trips you make, you must still have nature in your eye.

You are never to lose sight of nature; the instant you do, you are all abroad, at the mercy of every gust of fashion, without knowing or seeing the point to which you ought to steer.

The true test of all the arts is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the end of art, which is to produce a pleasing effect upon the mind.

While I recommend studying the art from artists, Nature is and must be the fountain which alone is inexhaustible, and from which all excellences must originally flow.

Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.

How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it.

People and dogs and cows are born to be what they are. They may cover it up for a long time, but it will come out sooner or later.

Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.

The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature.

Nature confesses that she has bestowed on the human race hearts of softest mould, in that she has given us tears.

Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art.

Alexander Hamilton realized that warfare was part and parcel of human nature, and it's something we had to prepare for.

I always like the current one [collection] the most, that's just my nature!

All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.

Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.

But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.

Perennials are the ones that grow like weeds, biennials are the ones that die this year instead of next and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all.

Nature, by its very nature, is very brutal and unequal. However, Man has somehow managed to transform the nature of its brutality and inequality.

God is the ultimate philosophical questioner, the one who asks the logically paradoxical ultimate philosophical question about the nature of his own existence.

I have a really strong suspicion of the romantic nature of portraiture, the idea that you're telling some essential truth about the interior lives of your subject.

Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature.

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.

Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?

The very nature of limiting something from an infinite to moments in time creates distortion; analog recording methods create all kinds of distortion, they're just not digital distortion.

Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.

One who lives in accordance with nature does not go against the way of things but moves in harmony with the present moment.

By steadily disciplining the animal nature, until it becomes one pointed, it is possible to establish conscious awareness of The Eternal.