Nature Quotes

Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.

By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.

Walk the lines of nature's palm crossed with silver and with gold.

I think it's my nature to engage in things that are more difficult.

Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.

One thought that occurs to me is that men will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that will suit them better.

The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.

Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same.

It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.

Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off.

The wholeness and freedom we seek is our true nature, who we really are.

Boundaries have no existence save on charts or in small minds. Nature does not draw lines.

I don't paint nature. I am nature.

A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.

Nature stopped being natural decades ago.

There's a cyclical nature to what people like in the world. Through time, things come around again.

Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.

Landscape is the creation of the one God - his sensuous image and revelation, through the investigation of which, by science or its representation by art, men's hearts are lifted toward him.

Lao-tze's Taoism is the exhibition of a way or method of living which men should cultivate as the highest and purest development of their nature.

A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.

[Lockyer]... sometimes forgets he is only the editor and not the author of Nature. [Lockyer was the first editor of Nature.]

As a homeschooling parent, I have often wondered who learns more in our family, the parent or the child. The topic I seem to be learning the most about is the nature of learning itself.

The sun is new every day

The heavens listen to what is said on these cobbles. Laws of man and nature come together here. Here you must be firm. Here you must be true.

He loves the world so much. I agree it would be a shame to take that love away from meadow and tree, stream and sky, and all that lives in nature, and leave them lonely.

What wastrel mankind destroyed takes time for nature to put to rights.

If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.

She was by nature a sunny soul

Some friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by interest, and some by souls.

What we mean by Tao is the way or course of Nature. This way has nothing good or bad, it is a mere flowing of things following the development and decline attributes of the moment.

The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent

True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.

What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.

Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in.

What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.

Nature hath no goal though she hath law.

Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing.

And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons.

Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the bottom of society. Not for changing the nature of the relationship.

Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.

This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division.

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs — To the silent wilderness Where the soul need not repress Its music lest it should not find An echo in another's mind.

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

I've taught the better class of tourist both to see and not to see; to lift their eyes above and beyond the inessentials, and thrill to our western Nature in her majesty.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.

Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.

Mother Nature is a pretty good bioterrorist.

Humankind's greatest priority is to reintegrate with the natural world.