Nature Quotes

The great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom's fount. They are deep in time.

The distribution of wealth is not determined by nature. It is determined by policy.

Children's books are by nature partisan.

In our enthusiasm to dominate nature and to produce more material good - goods - we have transformed means into ends.

Everything has it's own vibe. Every song has a different place, I guess, of where and when and what was going on and things of that nature.

But also, it's a wonderful thing for children to see the birthing of puppies, to see nature at its best when it works and to have the experience of the puppies.

Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

As a rule, people are afraid of truth. Each truth we discover in nature or social life, destroys the crutches on which we need to lean.

We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alsatian goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops; we wash brains. I can hear them in the dark sharpening their lasers.

The nature of business and government has been to build a surplus and self-perpetuate, but the Internet fosters and rewards smaller, more fluid organizations.

In old age the secret springs of human nature are apt to come out.

There is nothing in nature quite so joyful as the very young and silly lamb - odd that it should develop into that dull and sober animal the sheep.

I really believe hatred is not a primal emotion, in that you can't find it in nature. It's basically some kind of distortion of fear.

I think having nature be a part of people's lives helps all of us see ourselves as part of something larger.

Dreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is truth because invention, by its nature, can't be a lie.

I have to have nature around me. I love the earth and this insanely beautiful creation that we live in. I just think it's to be marveled at and appreciated. It gives us life.

Nature inspires us. Not being able to reach out and touch it, or see it, makes me get really antsy.

Free open-source software, by its nature, is unlikely to feature secret back doors that lead directly to Langley, Va.

No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper.

Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them.

And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.

Why must it be in human nature to hear one thing but to believe in another?" "Because we want things to get better," I said. "Otherwise we would all give up.

I think it takes a larger nature to receive nobly than to give nobly.

Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy. Look at what it does to her.

I cry at the end of every episode of "Girls." I'm just so overwhelmed by the truthfulness with which [Lena Dunham] conveys human nature.

Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times to be the sport of shifting winds of doctrine?

Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.

He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery.

Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.

When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree.

When we say we have "hit the limits," we are saying that nature is the problem, when in fact the limits we have hit are the limits of destruction and waste, not nature.

Nature is with us if we can learn how to align with it and not break the basic laws that generate life.

With organic approaches, women - who have been gardeners for millennia and mothers forever - can rise because of their intimate knowledge of nature.

What has dawned on me is that focusing on the "finite planet" frame sends a message that we have gone as far as Nature can take us and therefore we need to give power to forces outside Nature.

Nature compensates for its mistakes.

And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.

Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.

Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.

That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

A smile appears on the faces of most archaic figures, a happiness of expression seeming to transcend that of human beings.

All writers are autobiographical to a degree and writing about the nature of their inner life. My inner life has always been a struggle between my conception of myself and the world versus reality.

Go to bed when summers ends, what a good idea; wake up bright and early when birds announce its spring.

The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid,Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.

All women seem by nature to be coquettes.