Nature Quotes

I will march on in the path of nature till my legs sink under me, and then I shall be at rest, and expire into that air which has given me my daily breath.

To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

Old age by nature is rather talkative.

Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.

Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.

The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.

If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.

Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]

Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.

What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

Propriety is that perfection of style which comes when a work is authoritatively constructed on approved principles. It arises from prescription, from usage, or from nature.

Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run.

Blondes are like white mice, you only find them in cages. They wouldn’t last long in nature. They’re too conspicuous.

I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.

That's the nature of comedy. You always want to be improving and growing and changing with what's happening in the world. That's when comedy is most effective.

Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.

Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.

Looking at scenes of nature, for even a short while, can help us become more insightful, more creative, and more productive.

Nothing is created or destroyed in nature.

The globalized nature of production and innovation means that the benefits don't necessarily stay in the country where the investments are made.

Once the Western mind was disconnected from its sense of divine responsibility and genuine reverence towards nature, all hell broke loose. And that’s where we are now.

My inspiration always comes from different places. Sometimes it's a piece of music or being in nature or seeing a film or reading a magazine. I find inspiration everywhere.

There's a conflicted look in Day's eyes, a joy and a grief, that makes him so vulnerable. I realize how little defense he has against my words. He loves so wholly. It is his nature.

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.

When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.

The great truth that is too often forgotten is that it is in the nature of people to do good to one another.

The fact is that war films, by their very nature, are pitched at a high dramatic range.

I like that about human nature, that people are always striving to do better, and find something new.

Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not always appeal to us.

Nature shaped the claw to trap, and the tooth to kill, but the thorn...the thorn's only purpose is to hurt.

By our very nature, we are a human paradox. We are a human being. The being is infinite and the human is very finite. We walk around like lightening in a bottle.

Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.

Who would find out that I am a natural fool if I kept always cool and never let nature come to the surface? Nobody.

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.

People have this idea that nature dictates a sort of 1950s sitcom version of what males and females are like. That is just not the case in the insect world.

Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws.

The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography.

To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.

Listen - man is a child of Nature. When he turns against his mother - he's done! He may not find out about it right away, but he will.

It is in the nature of truth not to be at fault.

The experimenter dealing with nature faces an outside and often hard world. Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.

Human nature is like a drunk peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one side, over he topples on the other side.