Nature Quotes

It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.

The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'

When I am out and about I feel watched. It's become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego.

Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.

If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.

Grace renders us like God and a partaker of the divine nature.

The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.

It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.

There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.

Habit is the deepest law of human nature

Nature admits no lie.

Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse.

The finest flowers of genius have grown in an atmosphere where those of Nature are prone to droop, and difficult to bring to maturity.

Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.

Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.

There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.

Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.

I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.

Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science.

Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight.

The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.

To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.

The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill.

The animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know always when to use it, and use it wisely; but when man descends to cunning he blunders and betrays.

When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?

If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is - and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.

Natural things are glorious, and to know them is glorious.

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

I don't think a worship of nature is necessary to mount a really strong defense of the environment.

Nature's what it's all about, but our people have been brainwashed into thinking that life is a cell phone against your head and the TV on a beer commercial with hot chicks.

A garden is a symbol of man's arrogance, perverting nature to human ends.

I am extremely square and obedient in nature!

A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde.

Let's find visual excitement in what nature has to offer.

O subtle love! a thousand wiles thou hast, by humble suit, by service, or by hire, to win a maiden's hold,--a thing soon done, for nature framed all women to be won.

The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.

It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.

Sometimes when you're in a more fast-paced place, with more to see and do, you miss out on things like nature and beautiful, God-made things. They call it "God's country"!

No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.

I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

There is nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning.

Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.

Surely the true path is to dive deep into nature.

To paint nature you must be in it a long time.

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.