Nature Quotes

The essential nature of a democracy compels it to insist that individual power of all kinds, political, economic, or intellectual, shall not be perversely and irresponsibly exercised.

The present stage redefines the possibilities of man and nature in accordance with the new means available for their realization.

The modern artist, by nature and destiny, is always an individualist.

Science is the key which unlocks the storehouses of nature.

Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature.

While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet.

Poor fish of Rodondo! in your victimized confidence, you are of the number of those who inconsiderately trust, while they do not understand, human nature.

If not against us, nature is not for us.

In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.

So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.

O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.

Nature does not forgive.

I play every game to win, it is not in my nature to throw a game.

To me, Hillary [Clinton] looks alright. She looks like the kind of woman I admire. She doesn't seem to have distorted her essential nature.

All over the planet, nature is being transformed into 'un-nature' at breakneck speed...My life is part of natural history. I long to know where that history came from and where it is going.

Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?

Beauty- it was a glorious gift of nature.

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.

What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood?

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.

We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men.

Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?

Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.

Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.

As long as we abide in Christ, our action is from Him, not from our own corrupt and broken nature.

Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.

It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.

One's appreciation of nature is never more acute than when a bit of nature is injected into one's flesh.

When a miracle happens, even if not to you, its nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face.

By nature I'm not a brooder.

New York is a character, all on its own, and whenever you film there, it becomes part of the show. That's just the nature of being there.

By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.

Whether arrived at through reason or revelation, natural law is the highest law known to man. It is anchored in the very existential nature of man and is therefore a priori just.

Socialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes.

Change is the very nature of nature.

Change,connectivity,and learning to live well with others and with Nature and her ways will be the features of the world when seen through the eye of Tao.

Everyone had a weakness. It was the law of nature that for each being there was a predator, or a disease, or a vulnerability built into their very core.

It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves.

I refuse to let anybody try to typecast me. It's against my nature. I like to continually do different things.

I had been performing since I was 5, so it wasn't like I hadn't been on a stage before. I was always older than my age. That's my nature. I've always been a kind of mature kid.

I can't be easy. It's not my nature. But it's my nature to love you.

Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.

Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.

Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.

The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour is negligence, refinement a science, and art a nature.