Nature Quotes

No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.

Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!

That's the evergreen nature of a great song. They can be resurrected. They can be covered. They can find new relevance due to changing circumstances in history.

If we are ever going to save this society and the world, there has got to be a way for us to work together. That may be more than we can ever hope to achieve, just because of human nature.

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it.

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

That which parents should take care of... is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.

I can't legislate to change human nature.

Reviews are destructive by their very nature.

Anybody doing something brings something to it. It's not for me to say if it's "growth". Just by the nature of everyone has a different take on the material. Some people would.

If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.

I think [social media] is fundamentally restructuring the whole nature of information and how it's expressed in America.

Everyone can lock into the rhythm on a tune. It's organic in nature. It connects the band as a whole and connects the band to the audience.

The distance between a gene and a behavior is of greatest interest to me. The relative contributions of nature and nurture, of nucleotide and nuclear family, are perpetually fascinating to me.

So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In her functions weary of herself.

In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.

He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.

In the woods is perpetual youth.

One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul.

To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of inferior landscape that lead to them, my affections are wholly bound up.

Every time we get slapped down, we can say, Thank you Mother Nature, because it means we're about to learn something important.

Nature abhors the vacuum tube.

The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.

In the range of inorganic nature. I doubt if any object can be found more perfectly beautiful than a fresh, deep snowdrift, seen under warm light.

All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.

The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form.

Orange and speckled and fluted nudibranchs slide gracefully over the rocks, their skirts waving like the dresses of Spanish dancers.

In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste.

It is the nature of a person as he/she grows older to protest against change, particularly changes for the better.

Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.

It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better.

Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.

The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear from thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.

Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end.

Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.

What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play.

If the universe had a beginning, its beginning, by the very condition of the cases, was supernatural; the laws of Nature cannot account for their own origin.

A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature.

I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else.

Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.

I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is good and bad nature. It is all in where you stand at the time.

As you get older, you recognize the erotic nature of the vampire and the idea of the undead.

It is estimated over 80% of all illnesses today are spiritual in nature.

Dust on gold doesn't change the nature of gold.

To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part of larger and larger spheres of wholeness.

Short form media is reductionist by nature.

We could overcome the baser aspects of our nature... and give this planet the kind of caretakers it deserves.

Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.

Nature, or at least birds and women, abhorred the invisible man.