Nature Quotes
I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves.
The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.
It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.
You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.
But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb.
He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.
That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.
Human nature is the same in all professions.
They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.
- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact.
And perhaps it was also the case that, for all a lifetime's internal struggling, you were finally no more than what others saw you as. That was your nature, whether you liked it or not.
It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.
As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.
a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.
Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.
To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.
As much as I don't care about those things, I think it's human nature to not want to feel totally insignificant.
If I replace the word God with the word nature, I am far more at ease with the whole religious enterprise.
The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest) to attain her needs by the easiest means.
How I want to see the mountains, rivers, sunshine, and ruined fortresses! Let the wind course over us until we become beautiful
The more we nurture the planet, the better and more natural a life we'll have.
Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight into the secrets of nature.
I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.
If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.
The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.
I actually think that history has fed off the restlessness of cyber space, of kind of the frantic, segmented nature of the way we lead our lives. People want to be connected.
God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.
I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.
You can rest a lot in an hour or have a whole day and not do it properly. One way I get a quality recharge is to connect with nature. To experience something that's bigger than me.
As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.
Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
I deeply believe that marriage is by nature between a man and a woman, but that conviction does not prevent me from recognising that other forms of affective relationships exist.