Nature Quotes

I always think I don't have any songs, I don't have anything I'm working on, and I get in the studio and realize there are 20 things I'm thinking about. It's just kind of second nature.

It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born?

The perishable nature of love is what gives love its profound importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does.

I've been trying really hard to be more domesticated. It's not in my nature to clean and cook, and so I've been really good about it.

Nobody in this world was born to be the same as anyone else. Turning people into robots, especially children, is a crime against nature itself.

By nature I am not tough, believe it or not.

One thing I think I've always felt about being in nature is that it's a very natural taste.

I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.

Nature must be interpreted as matter, energy, and information

What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,--to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us?

Avoid all affectation and singularity. What is according to nature is best, and what is contrary to it is always distasteful. Nothing is graceful that is not our own.

There is no single theory that is used in economics that considers the finite nature of resources. It's shocking.

Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible.

If the minority is able to successfully undo the Affordable Care Act by blackmail, it will be the undoing of the democratic nature of our government.

Folks are obviously reluctant to do things that they don't feel comfortable with, and the conservative nature of the state is such that they can understand property rights.

Stories are one thing that will be constant in life. Whether told, written, reenacted they are a fundamental part of human nature.

Nature has a funny way of breaking what does not bend.

My second record I used a producer, which was frustrating in a way, because I think a lot of the punky spirit and provocative nature of the lyrics didn't come across - the music was pretty.

What we call human nature, is actually human habit.

I'm a guy who comes from a small town in the Midwest. It's not in my nature to say the most explicit things in public.

Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.

The artist Nature often achieves greatest effect when not working with a full palette.

I love discussing the ins and outs of the collaborative nature of writing.

A tree is an incomprehensibl e mystery.

My nature just changes.

I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.

It is one of those quirks of human nature that you love the person whom you treat well, not necessarily the person who treats you well.

We are each called to go through life reclaiming the planet an inch at a time until the Garden of Eden grows green again.

Nature does not pile up 1000 hogs, then hope for the best.

My test for veracity has always been: How this will settle with a person who is dying? Boundlessness seemed to me to open the door to the true nature of mind that is pointed to in the Heart Sutra.

My daughter, the one who lives nearby, is raising her children to be very much aware. We went on a nature walk on Monday; I'm learning so much from her.

I’ve long been a fan of IMAX nature documentaries, but Humpback Whales, directed by Greg MacGillivray, is something special.

In Nature all is common, and no use is base. She keeps no selected elements done up in gilt papers for sensitive people.

Informing all of Carson's work was the idea that although human beings are part of nature, we are distinguished by our power to alter it irreversibly.

I don't like to be in the forest. It's a weird thing. I've learned to have a general appreciation for nature, which has taken a while. But the forest, I still don't really love.

Culture means control over nature.

The philosophers have always given truth a bill of divorce, by separating what nature has joined together and vice versa.

Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond of society.

Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from her with levers, screws and hammers.

Nature is the living, visible garment of God.

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.

The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.

Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.

For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.