Nature Quotes

It seems to me self-evident that we cannot have capitalism without capital and, very importantly, that the ultimate source of all economic capital is Nature's capital

To each man at his birth nature has given some fault.

I love the act of writing. I like the quiet, internal aspect of it. If I lost track of that, I couldn't direct the same way. I couldn't be a director for-hire; it's just not my nature.

There's never been anyone like Bettie Before. Monroe had Harlow and Detrich, she had all of those blonde bombshells, but there was nothing like Bettie. She was the first icon of her nature.

It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

What do women want? A guy they can't drive crazy. There aren't many around. But they try. They can't help it, it's their nature.

The moral miracle of redemption is that God can put a new nature into me through which I can live a totally new life.

The nature of the spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty.

Not for any one man's delight has Nature made the sun, the wind, the waters; all are free.

If you have to hire paid actors to impersonate people who politically support you, people don't actually natively politically support you. You are not a political animal that exists in nature.

In our conditioned nature we do not understand value of something until we lose it.

It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity.

Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.

Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.

It's actually a very unpleasant experience to read a Nature paper, or to read a Science paper.

Philosophy ought to be able to give an account of rationality that is not wholly detached from science's account of nature, even if it is not straightforwardly reducible to it.

Mud is the most poetical thing in the world.

The law of attraction is a law of nature. It is as impartial and impersonal as the law of gravity is. It is precise and it is exact

By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.

Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence.

Nature is about smelling, hearing, tasting, seeing.

The issue ultimately involved is whether there is a source of truth higher than, and independent of, man; and the answer to the question is decisive for one’s view of the nature and destiny of man.

The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.

Nature's imagination far surpasses our own.

That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.

I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax!

I strive to express the spiritual nature of the Universe. Painting for me is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature.

Human nature is largely something that has to be overcome.

Conventions are, by nature, a party. I mean, that's why people become delegates. They come from all over the world to exercise their democratic rights and to party.

If you look at eggs, you will see that each one is almost round but not quite ... Nature's way of distinguishing eggs from large golf balls.

Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it.

For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, "The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan, And none but he!"

Embody the three harmonies: within; with others; and with nature.

If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or creeds.

You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

It's human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it.

We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations.

A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen.

Let us return to our eagle's nest in the Himalayas. It is waiting for us, for it is ours, eaglets of Europe, we need not renounce any part of our real nature...whence we formerly took our flight.

In remaking the world in the likeness of a steam-heated, air-conditioned metropolis of apartment buildings we have violated one of our essential attributes-our kinship with nature.

Egoistical opinion that a man is the king of nature was created by the man himself, so he can justify his wrong decisions.

A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world.

What draws friends together does not conform to the laws of nature.

For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth, because it is not itself the nature of truth.