Nature Quotes
Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.
Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.
An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.
Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
You have not known even a fragment of My reality. The full nature of this reality can never be understood by anyone.
But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.
If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.
Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.
If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job.
My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.
Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in order to build cool devices.
We're all moving to a world where the forces of nature come closer together to technology.
The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it
Denying our weaknesses is neither power, nor protection. We cannot overcome those disabling parts of our own nature which in fact steal our power away, if we do not acknowledge they exist.
The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself.
The end of the ridge and the end of the world... then nothing but that clear, empty air. There was nowhere else to climb. I was standing on the top of the world.
There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.
An empowering mission statement has to become a living document, part of our very nature, so that the criteria we've put into it are also in us, in the way we live our lives day by day.
With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.
Movements are powerful forces of human nature. But fashion has never been egalitarian. There needs to be a balance between aspiration and accessibility, curation and community.
It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride.
Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.
These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us.
It's the reason we go to films and watch television: to escape the mundane nature of life and see another world and see ourselves in that other world. I think that's what sci-fi does so well.
Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it.
Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.
We must now understand that our own well-being can be achieved only through the well-being of the entire natural world around us.
To do evil for good is human corruption; to do good for good is civil retribution; but to do good for evil is Christian perfection. Though this be not the grace of nature, it is the nature of grace.
One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that you do.
I'm an actor, and part of my joy and my curiosity about the job that I do, is that actors have the privilege of exploring human nature in different ways.
Nature is an incredible cooperative. When things operate outside of that cooperative, they die off. It's a very simple rule that nature operates under.
Our relationship with places is a close bond, intricate in nature, and not abstract, not remote at all: It's enveloping, almost a continuum with all we are and think.
We are developing all sorts of technologies based on what we have learnt from birds, animals and soils. Pollination is worth £billions. But it also highlights how nature is so interconnected.
Home is oneness, home is my original nature. It is right here, simply in what is. There is nowhere else I have to go, and nothing else I have to become.
There's a much bigger picture beyond surfing, its part of an ocean culture. Everything comes back to Mother Nature. Surfing is a way of connecting, and saying thanks.
Curing environmental ills requires not a stance outside nature, but a stance within nature, a role not as onlooker without, but as an actor within.
Nature has gifted this rich biological diversity to us. We will not allow it to become the monopoly of a handful of corporations. We will keep it as the basis of our wealth and our sustenance.
A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop... it would diversify its crops to suit the earth
To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.
The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.
Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.