Nature Quotes

There are laws of nature - of course there are - even if they don't exist in some sort of bizarre Platonic Heaven.

Realize thy Simple Self, Embrace thy Original Nature.

Nature doesn't make long speeches.

A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature. And if Nature herself cannot sustain her efforts long, how much less can man!

It is the child that sees the primordial secret in Nature and it is the child of ourselves we return to. The child within us is simple and daring enough to live the Secret.

Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.

Nature is not anthropomorphic.

Nature does not have to insist.

Of all things, none does not revere the Way and honor virtue. Reverence of the Way and honoring virtue were not demanded of them, but it is in their nature.

He (the sage) wants all things to follow their own nature, but dares not act.

The nature of competition is such that any number of people invariably have their eyes on the same prize you do. Recognize your assets and employ them to the best of your ability.

The source of nature is spirit.

The Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore.

Nobody ever feels like they've arrived. That's just the nature of being a creative type of person. You always feel like you can get better or reach more people.

I believe more in concrete spirituality rather than in a spirituality that is divided from the body and from nature.

rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity.

It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature.

There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.

We reveal something of our nature when we sing, something that can be disguised in our speaking voice.

The core of who you are, your true nature, is Love.

Improvement is nature.

Colors are the smiles of Nature. When they are extremely smiling, and break forth into other beauty besides, they are her laughs.

Okay, 'Best Party Ever' -- to me, that's like saying 'Best Gym Ever' or 'Best Nature Documentary Ever,' like how good can it really be?

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.

It's to surprise people about something that is extremely well known. I mean human reproduction, the human body, nature and so on. To surprise them with a new technique.

I think that we have to be very careful and get back into the loop, get back to nature. Get back to God and not let the technology send us somewhere that we're going to regret.

Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.

Games are nature's most beautiful creation

The very essence of your Being is infinite, eternal silence. It is your true nature. It is the essence of all existence.

The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world.

Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.

Nature alone is the master of true genius.

Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature.

The painter strives and competes with nature.

He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.

We may call painting the grandchild of nature.

Nature is constrained by the cause of her laws which dwell inborn in her. Variant: Nature is constrained by the order of her own law which lives and works within her.

Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites with the sea.

Necessity is a guardian in Nature.

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.

Despite all the progress of civilization, women have remained exactly as they emerged from the hand of Nature.

Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.

The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings.

I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.

Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.

As if one crime of such nature, done by a single man, acting individually, can be expiated by a similar crime done by all men, acting collectively.

Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of the cosmos and the nature of the human.

We are educated to be amazed by the infinite variety of life forms in nature. We are, I believe, only at the beginning of being flabbergasted by its unity.

If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner or later, for better or worse, as it is in our nature to do.