Nature Quotes

Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.

'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political.

We can teach children about natural consequences and cause and effect of their relationships which is really a mirror of what happens in nature.

Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.

A living countryside is not a luxury but a necessity for the human population; if you let conservation go hang until your pockets are jingling there will be a lot less to conserve

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

Nature was not satisfied by a simple point charge but required a charge with spin.

I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular.

God desired to be the real maker of a real bed, not a particular maker of a particular bed, and therefore He created a bed which is essentially and by nature one only.

Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles.

If they're [his clients] not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.

And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.

There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.

The feeling that dreams show us the real nature of reality is something that's shared by many indigenous groups around the world.

The nature of life is to be a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty. The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.

There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is.

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.

I am not too accusatorial or defensive by nature. I have always been kind of philosophical about it, remembering that it is just a game. People take these things too seriously.

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

I don't like coming home. It keeps me from being nostalgic, which by nature I am. Even before the plane begins its descent, I find myself dreading the questions left unanswered by my childhood.

Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.

If you think with enough energy about a hoped-for event, it will in the end happen. Not because you willed it. Because it was all the time in your nature.

It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.

Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.

We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us.

Society, like nature, is one body, really.

Every corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to be true.

A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.

What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.

It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.

Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.

Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature unconsciously.

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.

Humans have always wondered the big questions, "Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?" It's part of human nature. It's perhaps the underpinnings of religion.

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

As strenuous challenge or contemplative retreat, the parks and other units of the national lands offer welcome respite from the world, a safety valve for body and spirit.

It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.

My understanding is that to love, we need to be able to totally surrender to the living/dying nature of this world.

This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level.

As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.

The real nature of our predicament is completely opaque to us.

Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.

The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned by no later than the date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.

We forget the nature of true power. The power within is abundance. The power without is greed.

Heaven is not a club we enter. Heaven is a state we attain, in accordance with our “capacity to receive” a blessed and sanctified nature.