Nature Quotes

Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.

The future economic success of Silicon Valley will be contingent on whether we have a good quality of life. World-class workers will only want to come to a world-class living environment.

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.

Nature does not always conform to our predispositions and preferences, to what we deem comfortable and easy to understand.

Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is . . .

The evidence, so far at least and laws of Nature aside, does not require a Designer. Maybe there is one hiding, maddeningly unwilling to be revealed.

We live in an in-between universe where things change all right...but according to patterns, rules, or as we call them, laws of nature.

The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.

In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it.

I think maybe because I moved a lot in my childhood, I'm a little bit of a gypsy by nature.

It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.

Hillary Clinton wants to run on the historic nature of her candidacy. I will force her to run on accountability for the Clinton way.

At times there is nothing so unnatural as nature.

Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.

God reveals herself through our relationships not only to other people but also to other creatures and nature.

Americans really don't understand the Japanese nature, but it's not an easy thing to understand.

I was excited about working with Richard Gere. Oh, and Joan Allen! Oh, my God, she is such a force of nature, it's mind boggling.

I love songs because by nature they are concise; they sum up. I try to use as few words as possible. It's usually funnier that way, anyway.

Whatever your gender, you can be a Star Wars fan. Of course I knew it from life before, but the core of enthusiastic female fans is a testimony to the non-gendered nature of the audience.

Ultimately we're all faced with the same things and that's what brings us together. It's just human nature to be terrified and that doesn't necessarily manifest itself in completely different ways.

I don't think virtue has a downside. I think human nature does.

Even if the gods did exist, the Epicureans argued, they didn't care about us. Rather, everything comes from nature, and all that really exists are atoms and void, moving and congregating.

The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.

All art points to others with whom the writer argues about what is . . . He must have models with which to agree . . . or outright oppose . . . for Nature seems to remain silence.

...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.

By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.

Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing.

How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man.

Of course, there would always be arguments. That is the nature of Woman. They like the mutual exchange of dirty laundry, a bit of screaming, a bit of dramatics. Then an exchange of vows.

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.

Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.

Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.

Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within;.

Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.

When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.

The air came laden with the fragrance it caught upon its way, and the bees, upborne upon its scented breath, hummed forth their drowsy satisfaction as they floated by.

The day was made for laziness, and lying on one's back in green places, and staring at the sky till its brightness forced one to shut one's eyes and go to sleep.

It was the momentary yielding of a nature that had been disappointed from the dawn of its perceptions, but had not quite given up all its hopeful yearnings yet.

"The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts - in short," said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of confidence, "they are weaned..."

When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings.

You want to hate somebody, if you can, just to keep your powers of discrimination bright, and to save yourself from becoming a mere mush of good-nature.

Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.

No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child.

Disease is nature's revenge for our destructiveness.

Study nature as the countenance of God.

I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.

A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.