Nature Quotes

No human life, not even the life of the hermit in nature's wilderness, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.

Thinking withdraws radically and for its own sake from this world and its evidential nature, whereas science profits from a possible withdrawal for the sake of specific results.

In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.

The nature of life is to face us with ourselves, until we are able to handle the problems that knocked us into the dirt yesterday.

I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind.

deception and 'con games' are a way of life in all species and throughout nature. Organisms that do not improve their ability to deceive - and to detect deception - are less apt to survive.

There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my faculties. . .

It's time to change the conversation about nature to focus on what we all have in common: our shared humanity.

The seed must move to the soil; the tree must turn to the sun. The river must leave its source to reach the sea. And man must forget man, the maker, in order to make the world.

If the monkeys had been concerned only with monkey Beings they would never have become men.

Nature is actually unnatural

Nature declares herself in her works. What exists beyond her domain, if anything, becomes necessarily a matter of faith or imagination.

Nature is the worst terrorist you can imagine.

I felt that that experience, because of the responsible nature that I found I acted all during that traumatic time, that I felt that I was a man.

Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.

I'm, by nature, a really optimistic person. It goes back to my parents having been each divorced three times and my finding some way to survive all that. I always managed to survive by being upbeat.

Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions.

Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.

The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.

There is no closed figure in nature. Every shape participates with another. No one thing is independent of another, and one thing rhymes with another, and light gives them shape.

Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.

Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded.

Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.

Meet the sun every morning as if it could cast a ballot.

Sin is present in everyone as a nature before it expresses itself in deeds

We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.

Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man.

Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and beyond her.

Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful if man's destiny were not equally so?

There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.

I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace.

With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny are interesting to all alike.

One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.

Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.

Most, it would seem to me, do not care for nature and would sell their share.

Commerce is really as interesting as nature.

The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.

The poet is blithe and cheery ever, and as well as nature.

There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness.

I have no designs on society, or nature, or God. I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live.

There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process.

Man emulates earth Earth emulates heaven Heaven emulates the Way The way emulates nature.

Nature would not appear so rich, the profusion so rich, if we knew a use for everything.

I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.

Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.

This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge... It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature.

How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a slight outrage against universal laws.

How meanly and grossly do we deal with nature!

Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.

I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves.