Nature Quotes

Thanks to the internet, I buy lots of music, but thanks to my easily distracted nature, I forget about half of it!

No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.

Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.

We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.

Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.

A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.

Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.

Nature is one. It is not divided into physics, chemistry, quantum mechanics.

The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.

The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.

Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.

Nature's Laws are the invisible government of the earth.

The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain.

To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.

My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.

I grew up in beautiful Carmel, California, and I have extremely sweet parents that always loved nature and animals. They instilled such an appreciation for beauty and kindness that it was inherent.

Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .

I'm a fighter by nature and nothing will ever change that.

We often forget that we are nature.

Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws.

Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.

There is no whit less enlightenment under the tree by your street than there was under the Buddha's bo tree. I invite you to go sit under that tree by your street.

Only those young people can be accepted as healthy who refuse to be reconciled with the old order and foolishly or wisely struggle against it - such is the will of nature...

Masculine people, by their nature, tend to want to make everything into a journey with a goal.

It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it; for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock.

Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.

There is only one healing force, and that is nature; in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give the healing force of nature a hint about where there is something for it to do.

Beware! I'm acting under the influence of human nature.

I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.

Nature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art.

What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.

Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.

By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.

You can't repeal human nature by an Act of Congress.

Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It's a strange world, why make it stranger?

(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.

A man had to learn, it was his nature.

The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.

I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with lying and hypocrisy.

This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing that is not a matter of doubt and disquiet.

The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.

We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.

Well, it's always been my nature to take chances My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances

Not only don't diets work, they're actually designed to fail. It's not you or your lack of will power that's the problem. It's that diets by their very nature simply don't work.

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

Art is form struggling to wake from the nightmare of nature.

Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.

When it comes to people -- don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature.

Man and woman become a devil to each other when they do not separate their spiritual paths, for the nature of created beings is always the nature of differentiation.