Nature Quotes
Creation sleeps! 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause,- An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!
In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.
Expediency therefore concurs with Nature in stamping the seal of its approval upon Regularity of conformation.
Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace?
Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed with blood and violence, how quietly the grass grows.
In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter.
Ability for stupendous toil is lodged in every human spirit, a grand gift from the God of nature; but only the persevering worker knows what this latent power is able to achieve.
The period of youth is the glory of nature, and the healthful development of all the resources of strength deposited in our nature is the glory of youth.
Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?
I think I'm very in touch with nature because I grew up in that surrounding. That's a big part of who I am; I don't know anything different.
I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.
Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another!
One can suffer a convulsion of one's entire nature, and, unless it makes some noise, no one notices. It's not just that we are incurious; we completely lack any sense of each other's existences.
It used to be that god was revealed in the wonders of nature; now God was being challenged by those same wonders. Scholars were now required to choose one side or the other.
Spirituality is a brave search for the truth about existence, fearlessly peering into the mysterious nature of life.
A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.
Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.
I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.
Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.
Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.
Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.
The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.
And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?
man ... thinks of himself as a creator instead of a user, and this delusion is robbing him, not only of his natural heritage, but perhaps of his future.
Deism is logically compatible with evolutionary theory for the simple reason that the theory says nothing about the origin of the universe or of the laws of nature.
Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency.
A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels.
you'd do anything to get a soul mate back, right?… I mean, that's the nature of soul mates.
It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.
True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.
Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.
We ought to be thankful to nature for having made those things which are necessary easy to be discovered; while other things that are difficult to be known are not necessary.
Any film that you make, it's a very high end game of musical chairs ... but that's just the nature of filmmaking. You do the dance with a certain actor.
There is no reason to believe that the nature of the violent minorities is now greatly different from what it was in the past. What has changed is the will and ability of the majority to react.
What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.
Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human beings.
Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.
Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.