Nature Quotes

Pure love of God is our nature, but we are so much diverted, so much distracted by the externals that we've forgotten that it's our essence.

The creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted.

Nature has come to a point where now, unless you take individual responsibility, you cannot grow.

All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.

The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.

Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped.

Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.

Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.

We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are encamped in nature, not domesticated.

Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.

A run is more difficult to make than no save, because batting is in its nature a far less certain and reliable thing than bowling and fielding.

Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.

Though how nature works is way beyond man's ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons that can help us understand the realities that affect us.

I think it is in the nature of individuals and individual entities not to self-correct.

Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil beauty as in those unsung, unpainted hills of Pennsylvania.

I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.

Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

We aren't really the victims. After all, we created the system ourselves and as long as we keep consuming, it will continue to exist. Ultimately, capitalism only mirrors human nature.

You can begin feeling whatever you want (even if it's not there).. the universe will correspond to the nature of your song.

All of this abundance begins to shine through a mind that is aware of it's own infinite nature. There's enough for everyone. See it. Believe it. it will show up for you.

The capitalist priority is efficiency of capital and profitability, which is generally inconsistent with protecting the vulnerabilities of people and nature.

Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

Records are made to be broken. It is in man's nature to continue to strive to do just that.

By nature I am curious about life, and this extends to my business.

I think the messiness and embodied nature of modern life just produces an enhanced signal for our attention.

I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.

The future will belong to the nature-smart.

Nature is one of the best antidotes to fear.

As usual, nature's imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep.

Nature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it's a wonderful problem, because it doesn't look so easy.

One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to do it.