Nature Quotes

Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced, continued, or concluded.

[Religious liberty was] in its nature an inalienable right ... because the opinions of men, depending only upon the evidence contemplated by their minds, cannot follow the dictates of other men.

But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.

Man is known to be a selfish, as well as a social being.

There's no real reason for me to be so obsessed with trying to understand the true nature of things. You can live a perfectly happy life being utterly confused and not knowing.

When evening closes Nature's eye, The glow-worm lights her little spark To captivate her favorite fly And tempt the rover through the dark.

From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.

Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men.

Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.

The best predictor of preschool children's physical activity is simply being outdoors.

The Ilan-Lael Foundation is an arts education foundation celebrating nature and the aesthetic of the built environment for its ability to help us see ourselves and our world in new ways.

It's the nature of human consciousness to look for trouble constantly, and we find it. We find it.

That's human nature - the ups and downs.

Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.

O love's a simple word to sayWith nature aiding and abetting

I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.

Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.

A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.

Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it.

There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.

It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature.

she was such a bad actress. she never said her lines rite, it was something perverse in her nature. and wat was her line anyway?

The real survivors are the Earth inhabitants that have lived millions of years without consuming their ecological capital, the base from which all abundance flows.

The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature could exist without the notion of Nation.

I'm an advocate of human nature.

I just find that humans are predictable and stupid and animals and nature are a lot more magical to me. I'm just interested in magic, and not the silly humans.

Being out in nature inspires me as a writer.

Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature.

Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful.

A woman is a creature who has discovered her own nature.

Because of the nature of my life, because I train a great many people, I come upon such a huge variety of human species, as well as the earth species for that matter.

I'm very much an animal and nature person.

Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language

There is true color, there is nature without exaggeration, without forced brilliance! He is exact.

I'il n'est pas en notre pouvoir de changer la nature des choses. Il faut les йtudier telles qu'elles sont.

For it is in our nature to endure patiently the decrees of fate, but not the ill-will of others.

Man's existence precedes his essence

You see, I'm fond of teasing, it's a second nature with me—and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer; I don't tease nicely.

Neither nature, experience, nor probability informs these lists of 'entitlements', which are subject to no constraints except those of the mind and appetite of their authors.

It is the nature of walls that they should fall.

Y'know, Nature's unpredictable -- that's why we had to tame her. Maybe we went too far, but in principle we made the right decision.

Love ... Just Nature's way of getting one person to pay the bills for another person.

Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.

Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.

When you are a writer the assist-to-turnover ratio...there are a lot more turnovers than assists. It's just the nature of the beast.

You might be a redneck if you've ever stood in line to get your picture taken with a freak of nature.

There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature.