Nature Quotes

As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.

Nature learns and changes as a result of stimuli, and certain habitats of nature will be formed that weren't there before. That's how I look at reality.

But it is the nature of life that no emotion is meant to last forever.

Whether people know it or not, I'm a big nature guy. I like snowboarding, I like fishing, and those are my ways to wind down.

The rain wasn't the usual glittering silver, but dark and dirty, as if nature were a scrubwoman wringing out a filthy mop.

The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom.

The shape and texture of fruit is sensuous and fascinating, but the true delight blossoms when you experience the flavor of these colorful gifts of nature.

Emotional turmoil can be a powerful catalyst to reconnect us with our divine nature. It propels us into a journey of self discovery and urges us to learn how to love and accept our entire being.

I'm introverted by nature, and I need to have some things of my own.

I think it's fascinating that there's a whole holiday dedicated to things that we fear and that's so interesting about the nature of humanity.

The day must come when trust will be as natural to your nature as distrust now seems to be.

I am impressed with the natural health programs at Nature Care College. Their dedication to quality education is truly inspiring.

By connecting with the present we turn our attention inward, away from all the chaos and activity, and experience our eternal, unbounded nature.

I'm an incurable optimist and a go-getter - it's in my nature to focus much more on what makes me happy than what makes me nervous.

It's human nature for people to expect people to be what they see on the screen.

We call it "Nature"; only reluctantly admitting ourselves to be "Nature" too.

I like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature, in repose, distinct.

Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle.

I believe in the relatedness of all forms of life from the simplest to the most complex. We humans share the same family tree as all life on earth, back to the first stirrings in the primal ocean.

I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.

There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and aliveness that the rest of the world recedes. It . . . gives the brain a small vacation.

The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.

Culture is what people invent when they have lost nature.

Our relationship with nature has changed radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.

If you're not comfortable with delay, frustration and impatience, get out of the Senate. It's the nature of the institution, but I think we've taken it to an art form.

never was there a thoroughly noble nature without some romance in it.

We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.

All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.

Human nature is violent, argumentative, fallible, and given to endless fantasizing.

Animals we are, and animals we remain, and the path to our regeneration and happiness, if there be such a path, lies through our animal nature.

I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate

The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.

Flowers are heaven's masterpiece.

Why are we even here [on earth], what's our human nature? It's precipitating a real philosophical crisis that I find quite fascinating.

Nature's beauty never fails to fill me with a sense of wonder and awe, and still, I refuse to go camping.

I am interested in the nature of things. The nature of something is quite different from the way it looks.

That is the nature of hope. We do all we can, and then the Lord stretches forth his hand and touches our lives with light and courage and, most of all, hope.

Being a leader is one thing I've never felt comfortable with. It's not my nature.

"What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle--it's just a web." "Ever try to spin one?" asked Mr. Dorian.

Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature.

The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches with pencil.

Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.

To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning of long-term genetic evolution.

The commitment must be much deeper - to let no species knowingly die; to take all reasonable action to protect every species and race in perpetuity.

I think that's my nature, to want to bring people together rather than to try to bombard them into agreement.

The vast majority of species that are vanishing, we haven't even discovered yet. How can you possibly put them back in nature if the ecosystem is gone?

The most rational defender of nature is driven by a passion for wildness that cannot be explained by an appeal to logic.

If your mind is still... You can sense the peace that emanates from the earth.