Nature Quotes

The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action.

Three simple words can describe the nature of the social revolution that is talking place and what Negroes really want. They are the words "all," "now," and "here."

We Germans are particularly aware that you can only be successful on the global market over the long term if you offer energy-efficient products that are, by nature, climate-friendly.

I will move with the wind.

The delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in which thought and consciousness seemed suspended.

It is in the nature of any effort to leave something serviceable behind it.

Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.

prayer must be, in its own nature, absurd and impertinent.

Is this wide world not large enough to fill thee,Nor Nature, nor that deep man's Nature, Art?Are they too thin, too weak and poor to still thee,Thou little heart?

It could plausibly be argued that far from Christian theology having hampered the study of nature for fifteen hundred years, it was Greek corruptions of biblical Christianity which hampered it.

I am free when I am functioning here in time and space as the creative will. ... freedom by our definition is obedience to the law of one's nature.

Hormones are nature's three bottles of beer.

The industrial world destroys nature not because it doesn’t love it but because it is not afraid of it.

I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.

It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.

Love, from its very nature, must be transitory.

A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature.

Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.

Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem.

Being as restless as I am by nature, I couldn't simply just be on set, wait for my turn to rehearse for the week. And I kept reading, but it wasn't enough for me.

The cues that arouse desire are changed by Fashion, but feel like the proddings of Nature.

When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.

Dirty old men, ignoring society, continue to follow nature.

If we knew enough, fortune would turn out to be nature.

Nature knows no difference between weeds and flowers.

The nature of language may determine what most people say, but I always speak my own meaning.

History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.

A fastidious taste is best indoors, away from nature and the city.

Rule of science: only exclude purpose, and Nature will reveal her causes.

Nature often seems like an idea that has had its day.

Natural Man, in our current version, is a disgruntled adolescent.

The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.

I think the fun thing about this franchise [Planet of Apes], as storytellers, is that a lot of the franchises are very black and white. This is all about the gray areas; it's really about the nature.

Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?

All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.

One cannot apologize for one's nature.

It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind.

The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.

I believe in nature instead of God.

I do find it sometimes that people project their own feelings on to the characters and I think that there is a certain amount of sexism - I mean the proprietary nature, for men and women.

The generous giver, demonstrating the nature of God by his behavior, can never outgive God.

The wonders of nature call to you. The promises and prophecies of Scripture speak to you. God himself reaches out to you.

Nature is God's workshop. The sky is his resume. The universe is his calling card. You want to know who God is? See what he has done.

It's against God's nature to remember forgiven sins

Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.

See? Anger can be healthy. When the time comes–and it will come–remember that. And what I said. Embrace your powers–love yourself the way Nature made you, and you will prevail. Always.

A gate to nature is a gate to heaven!

In autumn, don't go to jewellers to see gold; go to the parks!

Happiness in nature is a double happiness; sorrow in nature is a half sorrow!