Nature Quotes

Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will.

Human nature is what Heaven supplies.

We are forever asking Nature whether it has stopped beating its wife.

Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

Folklore and mythology, as well as man's catastrophic disregard for nature, are the meat of Joseph D'Lacey's horror. But the prime cuts are always compassion and surprise.

The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.

The hard struggle which the Pan-Germans fought with the Catholic Church can be accounted for only by their insufficient understanding of the spiritual nature of the people.

It is eastwards, only and always eastwards, that the veins of our race must expand. It is the direction which Nature herself has decreed for the expansion of the German peoples.

Great, truly world-shaking revolutions of a spiritual nature are not even conceivable and realizable except as the titanic struggles of individual formations, never as enterprises of coalitions.

[It is] useful to know the laws of nature - for that enables us to obey them. To act otherwise would be to rise in revolt against heaven.

Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?

I have a unique ability to mock everything. I'm a sponge by nature, thats what my environment made me.

In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.

too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being.

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.

But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.

God is speaking. He is, by His nature, continuously articulate. He fills the world with His speaking voice.

The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.

I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.

Mother Nature does not do bailouts.

I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

The spiritual sense of our place in nature... can be traced to the origins of human civilization... The last vestige of organized goddess worship was eliminated by Christianity.

Soloing is the most beautiful way of climbing; no material constrains, just you and the rock, the sun, nature; a kind of school for courage, willpower and self-confidence.

Our noblest purpose in life is to remember our spiritual nature in the face of suggestions that we are a material society.

We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.

I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.

I love LA, but we don't really have beautiful natural things to look at. I just want to be in nature and go back to my roots and just see beautiful things, that's really all I want.

Nobody will leave any place unless they're forced out. That's the nature of humans. Once you're there, you're there. I've never seen anybody get up voluntarily and leave any place.

For rich people, the sky is just an extra, a gift of nature. The poor, on the other hand, can see it as it is, a gift of infinite grace.

How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally.

To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

For the most part, I do the thing which my own nature prompts me to do. It is embarrassing to earn so much respect and love for it.

One must take what nature gives as one finds it.

Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings.

Nature conceals her mystery by her essential grandeur.

But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us.

If you want the answer to anything, go sit in Nature for awhile

We're all collectors by nature. But if you're talking about an orderly life, there has to be a stop sign somewhere. Building a collection requires a strong constitution and the ability to resist.

The glossary of politics is so full of euphemistic words and phrases - as in the nature of things it must be - that one would suppose politicians must sometimes strain their wits to coin them.

Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

In order to tap into the power of dreaming, we must connect not only to the human story, but to all of nature and creation as well

Having to squeeze the last drop of utility out of the land has the same desperate finality as having to chop up the furniture to keep warm.

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.

Rolling torture wagons for nature's most dignified creature.

Human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions.

But nothing is all black in nature.

I wanted to contribute to the landscape tradition in art. By now I guess we are comfortable with the thought that man has been everywhere or affected everything in nature.