Nature Quotes

The nature of our motivation determines the character of our work.

If I say, "I am a monk." or "I am a Buddhist," these are, in comparison to my nature as a human being, temporary. To be human is basic.

True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realized.

As human beings we have the same experience of destructive and constructive emotions. We also have a human mind capable of developing wisdom. We all have the same Buddha nature.

Furthermore, I shall explain the nature of dharmata: Such a nature as this cannot be determined to be any one thing. So however you label it, that is how it appears.

The Enlightenment dream is a good one. The idea that people should rationally appreciate their place in nature, assess threats and possibilities, and regulate their behavior in response is inspiring.

You can't imagine anything like nature as we know it without predators.

I worry that even well-intentioned attempts to "improve nature" (say by reducing suffering) will make things worse even in their own terms.

Lost is a mystery show, so I think that would be stripping the franchise of sort of its essential nature.

The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.

I appreciate nature as well and everything green.

I'd like to think humans have a stronger sense of justice than the random forces of nature do.

I'm a worrier by nature. My husband says that if I'm not worried about something, I'm worried about what I've forgotten to be worried about.

I think so much about how we read, about the nature of solitude, and of community, is changing in ways that none of us yet understand.

Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form.

I'm definitely not satisfied about my career. I don't know how you can be, it's the very nature of things.

I'm amazed at the adolescent nature of some of the religious fanatics in our government. And they're full of double standards.

I think it's my nature to try and make original content, and that's what I've done, is just try and approach things in an original way, and do things differently.

People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature.

If we're in some sort of Hobbesian state of nature, where you just want a strong man who has no compassion Donald Trump is going to do a little better. So, we will figure out what game we're playing.

The Free Market is Mother Nature's way of organizing economic activity.

These mountains were given to us by the Great Chief so that we might never be depressed.

Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.

I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature.

Our human nature is exactly the same as it was 500 years ago, let alone five years ago.

Between nature and music there seems to be an elective affinity: they fit together, and when they do experiences of an ineffable kind are generated.

The garden is as good a symbol as you can find of a dialectic between spheres of experience - of culture and nature - that presuppose one another.

In all great civilizations, garden discourses have belonged to larger discourses about beauty, the good life, the relation of humankind to nature, and so on.

It's the nature of man to ask questions. --Belgarath

It's probably hard to feel any sort of Romantic spiritual connection to nature when you have to make your living from it.

The nature of a coward is to avoid death. If such a man courts peril there can be only two reasons. Either he is not a coward at all or there is no danger.

It is a merchant's nature to quibble over coins. It is how we become rich and buy satin shirts. The problems of who governs this area is one for another day.

If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.

.. the voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.

Our fleshly nature tempts us to put ourselves above others or seek a position or place for ourselves instead of allowing others to have it.

He who is honest in his dealings simply because of the social prestige and position it secures will never develop his higher nature, but will always live along the lower lines.

The fast paced nature of our technologically-driven world seems to create issues that would appear to be foreign to ancient civilization.

I had this duality growing up with my dad being a strict Catholic and his brother being a priest and my mother finding God in nature, so I've taken a little from both [traditions].

To label Jason Randal a magician does a disservice. You'll think the laws of physics, nature, the universe itself have been suspended. He's as good as Houdini was at his best!

Nature is good for all of us. When we're exposed to trees and other natural settings - even within the city, it fosters creativity.

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?

My love is to tell a story but I like stories that evolve from character, from the nature of the individuals involved.

And if God were trying to reach out to us, and teach us something about the deepest nature of matter, he might use some drugged-out surfers.

The design of a restaurant should embrace the identity of the chef, the nature of the cuisine, and the context of the restaurant itself.

People decide what markets should do - they are not a force of nature.

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

We tiptoed the tops of beaver dams, hopped hummocks, went wading, looked at spring flowers, tried to catcha snake, got lost and found. How fine it was to move at a meandery, child's pace.

We all live downstream