Nature Quotes

The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.

Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage

Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.

Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.

The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.

When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.

To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.

Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.

Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.

It already appears, that there must be in every society of men superiors and inferiors, because God has laid in the constitution and course of nature the foundations of the distinction.

The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of preaching.

I was very strenuous for retaining and insisting on it [law of nature], as a resource to which we might be driven by Parliament much sooner than we were aware.

What Nature bids is good, is wise, and faultless we obey.

We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed

I love green. Green is the color of nature, trees. I'm a tree freak. I spend a lot of my time planting trees, nurturing them, and studying them. It's one of the colors I couldn't live without.

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of the world holds this to be an obscenity, a corruption of our nirvanic nature.

One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests.

In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal.

The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.

Wildness is my suiting scene.

In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be; Where all the noises, that on peace intrude, Come from the chittering cricket, bird, and bee, Whose songs have charms to sweeten solitude.

How oft a summer shower has started me; to seek the shelter of a hollow tree

Human beings are selfish by nature. Everything that happens to a child, you immediately grab your own child and say, "I will never let that happen to you."

Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal.

Man's home is nature; his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions. Separated from such conditions they become empty dreams and idle indulgences of fancy.

An education could be given which would sift individuals, discovering what they were good for, and supplying a method of assigning each to the work in life for which his nature fits him.

Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.

Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.

But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.

Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her.

Government itself at length must fall To nature's state, where all have right to all.

Mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.

Good sense and good nature are never separated; and good nature is the product of right reason.

Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature.

What I love about the currawongs is the way in which they appear from nowhere and, for a brief period, rule the garden's soundscape, only to disappear as quickly as they arrived.

Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of the stars to cross.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character, and passions, his mistakes, and weaknesses."--Democritus An Abundance of Katherines---John Green

it is the nature of stars to cross

The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.

They who wander widest lift No more of beauties' jealous veils, Than they who from their doorways see The miracle of flowers and trees.

Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds.

Nature speaks in symbols and in signs.

The multiplier effect is a major feature of networks and flows. It arises regardless of the particular nature of the resource, be it goods, money, or messages.

Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.

One swallow never makes a summer.

This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate can give you a hard-on.

I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them...they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.

What is more gentle than a wind is summer?

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children.