Nature Quotes

One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.

Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature.

If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.

Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.

I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't?

Therefore, I reasoned that study of the cell cycle responsible for the reproduction of cells was important and might even be illuminating about the nature of life.

Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler.

Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.

Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely.

When you have an intense contact of love with nature or another human being, like a spark, then you understand that there is no time and that everything is eternal.

...in all the woods and forests, God did not create a single leaf the same as any other... People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different.

Loyalty cannot be too liberally insisted upon. Altruism in nature remains an exception. It poses a puzzle, being in prima facie conflict with the survival of the fittest and most selfish.

This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

Zach Galifianakis is a comic force of nature! He is terrific. He digs down here and delivers a beautifully nuanced performance that gets under your skin. Just like the movie.

I've just completed Mike's [Mann] Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's [Briffa] to hide the decline.

Nature means Necessity.

The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.

All things reflect the divine energy of nature—every flower, every rock, every sound, every sight. Once we realize that truth, we cannot help but smile.

Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.

For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.

But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.

No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.

Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.

In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.

Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.

A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.

Man has slapped nature in the face. If you slap it, it will slap you back.

Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.

The gossamer web of life, spun on the loom of sunlight from the breath of an infant Earth, is nature's crowning achievement on this planet.

By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

Habit is stronger than nature.

Habit is stronger than nature. [Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.]

Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.

Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.

I would not be comfortable appearing in a country where they have permitted the destruction of such beautiful and intelligent animals.

Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.

No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real. And it comes from the very nature of what judges do.

It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.

The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature. [Lat., At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.]

Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don't know whether or not we know that we don't know it.

The only true order is founded on Biblical Law. All law is religious in nature, and every non-Biblical law-order represents an anti-Christian religion.