Nature Quotes

With grace and a keen appreciation of human nature, Nicholas Thompson has written a revealing, moving history of the Cold War through two fascinating men.

Nature is the difference between the soul and God.

Nature knows no calendar, the seasons move in a circle.

Approaches to growing food that align with nature changed human relationships.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.

Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they're less than women.

Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business; and ... it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.

Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.

People are learning to grasp the diversity of nature, to understand its unifying principles and to sweep away the hierarchies and see the real connections.

Development comes from within. Nature does not hurry but advances slowly.

Self-giving means that we have to understand the nature of giving. When most people give, they give expecting a return on their investment.

If your nature is infinite awareness trapped in a body, suddenly there's a lack of happiness, a lack of freedom. No matter what you get you'll never be happy, because these are all trinkets.

I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my walks in nature, meditating, and of course with my teacher.

It is most important to have time alone. To be alone is not to be alone. It is only possible to truly feel immortality when we are by ourselves.

So, those who hate, those who are violent in nature, live in a world of hate and fear and violence inside themselves, inside their minds, inside their awareness.

Some speak of a return to nature, I wonder where they could have been?

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

I have been singing all my life, so it is pretty much second nature to me.

Nature is as it is because this is the only possible nature consistent with itself.

When you look at the average American you realize there's nothing nature enjoys more than a good joke.

The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.

For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.

Quiet is the element of discerning what is essential.

Nature meant woman to be her masterpiece.

Im a relentlessly optimistic person, and I think The Waterhole is a story of hope and that even though nature goes through cycles, we prevail in the end.

One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.

I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.

I am a loner by nature, and then I'm a writer, which makes me twice a loner.

I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.

... the space left to freedom is very small.ends are inherent in human nature and the same for all.

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the labor or the property of the weak.

What does one plant who plants a tree? One plants the friend of sun and sky; One plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty towering high.

We need the tonic of wildness.

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature.

The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact.

The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.

I would like my work to be thought of as a celebration of life and nature.

For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river.

Nature is accustomed to hide itself.

Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man.

With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior.

It's part of my nature. I get excited when trying out new stuff, whether it be an idea or equipment. It stimulates my juices.

It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.

First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.

The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.