Nature Quotes
Do not judge God's world from your own. Trim your own hedge as you wish and plant your flowers in the patterns you can understand, but do not judge the garden of nature from your little window box.
Life became a science when interest shifted from the dissection of dead bodies to the study of action in living beings and the nature of the environment they live in.
...compelling outdoor imagery always combines some kind of personal connection to nature and skillful technique. The former seems to be a form of grace, and the latter an act of the will.
The method of Fluxions is the general key by help whereof the modern mathematicians unlock the secrets of Geometry, and consequently of Nature.
Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.
Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.
People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.
The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.
He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.
Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.
We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.
He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.
In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.
The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.
Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand?
The Philosophy of Princes is to dive into the Secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare time.
To be thoroughly and abidingly happy is not only to get what we all instinctively desire, but to fulfill the purpose of our nature.
The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills.
The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there's a heap of choice in the cuts.
There is no cheating in nature and the simple unsought feelings of the soul. There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.
You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.
Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life.
Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.
In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything else
What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?
Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.
Psychology assumes that "things" are and "minds" are; and that, within certain limits determined by the so-called "nature" of both, they act causally upon each other.
You know, what's interesting about Washington...It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second-nature.
The nature of the presidency is that sometimes you don't choose which challenges come to your desk. You do decide how to respond.
Forms of government matter, in my opinion. It matters how -- the nature of the government in which people live.
The horse has such a docile nature, that he would always rather do right the wrong, if he can only be taught to distinguish one from the other.
There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.
Did I say the book of nature is a catechism? Yes, But, after it answers the first question with "God," nothing but questions follow.
All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority.
Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.
One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur.
To know something about trees-about even one tree-is to know something profound about the nature of the world and our place in it.
