Nature Quotes

The nature of a movie story is you have to keep charging forward and keep the audience with the story.

For though, in nature, depth and height Are equally held infinite: In poetry, the height we know; 'Tis only infinite below.

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

There were other auto manufacturers that were confabulating as much as [Buckminster Fuller] was, making claims about how cars resembled this or that aspect of nature.

I prefer Christmas, which is everybody's holiday. It's just my nature. I don't like to be zeroed in on en masse.

I have two older brothers and they were a huge part of life; we were very close. We used to run around and get into trouble. That’s what I came from - that exploring nature.

I think I'm very easily inspired. People, wildlife, nature, music, art. I think that I'm lucky that I have this great sense of wonderment about life in general.

Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.

I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money?

The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write.

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.

Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.

Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.

All babies are Buddha babies.

An old Apache storyteller reminds us

The sea never changes and its works, for all the talks of men, are wrapped in mystery.

Justice is but the distributing to everything according to the requirements of its nature.

How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike!

Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born to bear rule over Nature.

Though man comes from the dust, sin is not a part of his nature. Man can overcome sin, and through repentance attain to at-one-ment with his Maker.

Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.

Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.

It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.

In our hearts those of us who know anything worth knowing know that in March a new year begins, and if we plan any new leaves, it will be when the rest of Nature is planning them too.

The President and first lady did hold a private party at the White House over the weekend, but given the private nature of that event, I don't have a lot of details to discuss from here.

It's human nature to work on ourselves, to get better in mind, body, and spirit, so there's nothing wrong with trying to live life to your fullest potential.

A mere copier of nature can never produce any thing great, can never raise and enlarge the conceptions, or warm the heart of the spectator.

For nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good; it is civilization which ruins him

Moreover, nature's blocks had to be eternal-because nothing can come from nothing.

The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.

It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

I have no doubt about it. I think this is a part of the nature of man, a desire for freedom, for dignified life.

Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.

I have totally like an urbanite relationship to nature. I mean I'm not someone who hikes.

As soon as we get out of our urban shell, we're still at the mercy of nature as individuals.

Raw toast," Lucas said grimly, shaking his head. "It goes against the very nature of man.

Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world.

I don't meditate in any formal way, but I often lie in bed or find myself in nature and enter into that state of quiet where I get images, feelings, or melodies.

Only - only that, if you believe the tales, it's in the nature of our people to go to war and to kill, just as it is to sing and play and tell stories. Perhaps they are two halves of the same whole.

It's in my nature to feel, 'I could be this! This could be mine!'

Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre.

I mean, I’m an artist by nature, no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am, but that anybody does - it is astonishing.

It is only when human beings see themselves simply as human beings, no longer as gods, that they are in a position to perceive the wholly other nature of God.

The closer you get to the source, the more you begin to understand its essential nature.

Nature has been mastering itself for some time now, and it is an honor to be able to capture its beauty.

That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out.

Never does nature say one thing and Wisdom another. Variant: Wisdom and Nature! are they not the same? Variant: Nature and Wisdon always speak alike.

Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another. [Lat., Nunquam aliud Natura aliud Sapientia dicit.]

Nature draws no line between living and nonliving.