Nature Quotes
The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.
God's entire divine nature is wholly and entirely in all creatures, more deeply, more inwardly, more present than the creature is to itself.
Nothing save divine power is capable of doing so much for man as he can for himself.
Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
We all want to judge; it's an intrinsic part of our society and human nature. I'm not surprised that talent shows are hits, but I'm glad some of them aren't so brutal.
What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave more wickedly than it obviously does.
Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.
Capitalism, by its nature, entails a constant process of motion, growth and progress.
For it is the nature of people to love, then destroy, then love again that which they value most.
There is nothing like a fixed, steady aim, with an honorable purpose. It dignifies your nature, and insures your success.
Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.
There are two kinds of brave men: those who are brave by the grace of nature, and those who are brave by an act of will.
O merry, merry, merry, like only dogs know how to be happy and nothing more, with an absolute shameless nature.
For most of human history, we lived communally in groups, and it was part of the security and nature of groups to help each other and groom each other.
If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves.
A Warrior of Light needs love. Love and affection are part of his nature. He makes use of solitude, but is not used by it.
Looking through the eyes of the divine nature you see the essence within the manifestation, the creator within the creation, and it is a wonderful, wonderful world!
I would like to write my next book about what happened to critical intelligence in America and how it's been undermined by these really shallow ideas about human life and nature.
Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection have molded our nature, so too can our culture.
Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.
In the future, all cities will be distinguished by one thing only. The nature of their enthusiasm.
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.
The Church's mission is not political in nature. Her task is to open the world to the religious sense by proclaiming Christ.
Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes?
Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't the will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never cease to exist.
Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?
Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?
Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.
Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.
Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty.
Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.
Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.
By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.