Nature Quotes

People would say, "You know, Rich, it's nature. Birds of a feather flock together." I have to point out to them that, no, that's not the case.

[If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

A fine woman shews her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.

All spiritual life begins with a sense of wonder, and nature is a window into that wonder.

If a child never sees the stars, never has meaningful encounters with other species, never experiences the richness of nature, what happens to that child?

There is another possibility: not the end of nature, but the rebirth of wonder and even joy.

Thurst [thrust] out nature with a croche [crook], yet woll she styll runne back agayne.

Nature, and the original system that created us, must always remain somehow with us, the bedrock of our movements and actions. What is our duty? To live a life.

Besides, you're a cat. It's your nature to think you're the center of the universe.

Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child.

In nature we see where God has been. In our fellow man, we see where He is still at work.

Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.

My nature is a quagmire of unresolved confessions.

The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature’s imperfect but tenacious survivors.

If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.

I thank thee, Mother Nature, that thou hast put ingenuity enough in the brain of a child, when attacked by a brutal parent, to throw up a little breastwork in the shape of a lie.

Happiness is your original nature, it is YOU, minus your neurosis

I know that wine is, above all else, a blessing, a gift of nature, a joy as pure and elemental as the soil and vines and sunshine from which it springs.

In our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed with a vision about the nature of reality makes you a nut.

Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset.

The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience.

Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.

The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped away in an instant.

Your way begins at the other side. Become the sky.

I think all of us are living in denial of our spiritual nature as we continue to participate in the material world even though we know we're destroying the planet we live on.

It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than (one) film.

The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.

It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.

In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.

Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

All nature seems at work.

But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.

I do think there are always ways to create what seem like insurmountable powers, but then suddenly you find their limitations and that's the nature of comic book storytelling - always has been.

On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the very nature of God!

Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.

You will not understand your part within the framework of nature until you actually see yourselves in danger of tearing it apart.

Farm animals, like dairy cows - who by nature are vegans - are routinely force-fed fish to increase their weight and milk production.

Each person's only hope for improving his lot rests on recognizing the true nature of his or her basic personality, surrendering to it, and becoming who he or she really is.

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.

Our buddha nature is as good as any buddha’s buddha nature.

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

And, in order to possess the Truth, the plays of the lower nature must be stopped.

Peace is our very nature, and yoga leads you to inner peace.

Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it.'

If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and 'god' historically has not meant the laws of nature.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

My work is inspired by my passion for human rights issues and the environment, and by my love of family, music and nature.

Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.

What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.