Nature Quotes

I strive to express the spiritual nature of the universe.

Planting and growing increasing quantities of trees is the scientific solution to Earth's environmental dilemma.

A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests in the Arctic.

Remember your natural affection for all of creation.

If I ever have a conflict between art and nature, I let art win.

The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.

The deeper question... is not whether ancient religious forms can reform... but whether new forms of nature-related spirituality might emerge.

Name the season’s first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year.

Beauty being the best of all we know sums up the unsearchable and secret aims of nature.

Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

Art is Nature made by Man, To Man the interpreter of God.

Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep'd in the morning dews.

When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.

What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.

Nature engenders the science of painting

Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.

Nature is always hinting at us.

The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods.

Reality is obtained not by imitation, but by producing the sense of nature.

Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition.

But make no mistake: the weeds will win: nature bats last.

It's so easy to be undisciplined. And to be disciplined is so against my character, my general nature anyway, that I have to strain a little bit to keep on the right track.

Next time you see an unblemished expanse of grass, think about the chemicals that probably got dumped in your vicinity to create it. Are you grateful for that?

Never underestimate the human capacity for delusion.

It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.

I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it our ourselves.

I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.

The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity.

Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man

I certainly have a very colorful nature, filled with great highs and great lows... in my early adulthood I probably was grappling with some serious depression issues.

I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.

Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.

Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders.

All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and enter into another.

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.

Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage, Till pitying Nature signs the last release, And bids afflicted worth retire to peace.

Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.

Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted.

Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.

The starting point for the understanding of war is the understanding of human nature.

Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.

Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry feelings.

Morning ... 'tis Nature's gayest hour!

The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.