Nature Quotes

The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.

Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.

When you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children.

Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.

I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful.

Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.

If I hear a really good song it's like, oh man, I want to write a song that good. But the urge to create mostly comes from nature, weather and I think it just effects me.

Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.

What is pretty in nature is confined to the thin skin of the globe upon which we huddle. Scratch that skin, and nature's daemonic ugliness will erupt.

Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree.

A dog is a vehicle, you know, a dog is a window to Mother Nature and that's the closest species we have.

Woman is natural, that is to say, abominable.

I always wanted to do a story on the blues that not only reflected its nature and its content, but also alludes to the form itself…In short, a story that gives you the impression of the blues.

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.

...all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it.

Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can.

There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn't happen to be good for my work today, it's good for some other man's today... and will come around for me tomorrow.

The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.

One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.

We are the environment.

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Science must acknowledge truthfully how much it doesn't know and leave room for mystery, miracles, and the wisdom of nature.

The more a man follows nature, and is obedient to her laws, the longer he will live; the farther he deviates from these, the shorter will be his existence.

My opinion is, that more harm than good is done by physicians; and I am convinced, that, had I left my patients to nature, instead of prescribing drugs, more would have been saved.

No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced

I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature

In Egypt, the cats...afford evidence that animal nature is not altogether intractable, but that when well-treated they are good at remembering kindness.

Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it.

Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time.

But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.

I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it.

The morning sun Radiantly Rises above the frosty woods.

Nonviolence is the only way. Even if you achieve your goal by violent means there are always side effects, and these can be worse than the problem. Violence is against human nature.

We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature.

Life and the environment are one thing, not two, and people, as all life, are immersed in the one system. When we influence nature, we influence ourselves; when we change nature, we change ourselves.

That's the nature of sport, if you look at how Europe has performed they have found a way to win but golf is cyclical and there's not much between the teams.

Finding an excuse not to buy a brand can be just as enjoyable as finding an excuse to buy one. That, too, is human nature.

By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism

Happy the man whom indulgent fortune allows to pay to virtue what he owes to nature, and to make a generous gift of what must otherwise be ravished from him by cruel necessity.

Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings.

In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop.

Where nature goes to create stars, galaxies, quarks and leptons, you and I also go to create ourselves.

Beauty is nature’s way of acting at a distance.

Given the religious nature and the emotional power of Leftist values, Jews and Christians on the Left often derive their values from the Left more than from their religion.

Nature is a source of strength.

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can raise the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.

Technology is lust removed from nature.

I think people who write programs do have at least a glimmer of extra insight into the nature of God... because creating a program often means that you have to create a small universe