Nature Quotes

Making the documentary was an extraordinary experience and it really hit home to me the quasi-religious nature of this anthropogenic global warming cause. These people really have found religion.

We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way.

Having plants and flowers in my space makes me feel very calm and Zen. For me, its important to meditate every morning to be very clear in the head, and nature really helps me do the same thing.

Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.

It is difficult to resist a force of nature, Maman. His seduction is like all my senses struck by bolts of lightning.

One of the things I enjoy is the challenge of Mother Nature.

... courage is accompanied by patience and firm resolution? God sets courage like a sea around the weakness of our nature, enabling us to undermine the strongholds and citadels of the enemy.

Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.

It's true that many say that [they] object to the idea of "human nature," but it's not clear what that is supposed to mean. Are we different from ants?

In fact, anyone who merits attention and who promotes any cause at all is doing so on the basis of a belief that it is somehow good for humans, because of their inherent nature.

Nature will kill you without a minute's thought, and in nastier ways than a crazy guy with agun. It doesn't make her any less beautiful.

Practices should be for the players and not the coach. Practices should be fun for the players, positive in nature, and last no more than two hours.

To a child, and to an adult, too, what you discover by yourself, or what you think you discover by yourself, is what stays.

I'm not a pessimist by nature. I'm not someone who sees things in a bleak way.

The confidence is there, the game is there, but physically you can't fight nature sometimes. You can't do much about it.

I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food, wine, nature.

Any person who has spent time outdoors actually doing something, such as hunting and fishing as opposed to standing there with a doobie in his mouth, knows nature is not intrinsically healthy.

I wonder if it changes the nature of a society for beauty to be so common. Maybe in Vietnam "She has a wonderful personality" really means something. But I couldnt figure out a polite way to ask.

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

Sometimes human nature can leave you looking just a little shamefaced.

My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.

I always dreamed of going out to space. The idea of going to a planet where nobody's ever been is attractive to me, it just suits my nature.

It’s human nature to tear one another apart. Be glad you come from such a successful line of killers.

Nature has become something new. It is ours now, truly. And if our creation devours us, how poetic will that be?

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.

Our spirits are united with Jesus at salvation, but our minds are being progressively transformed into his nature.

I do not believe that it is possible to teach a cat to obey; that is contrary to his nature.

The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and nature of the stories that you want to tell.

A heroic nature is very Greek.

An electronic instrument is just harboring a natural element the same way that a guitar is harboring an acoustic element. It's all nature, really.

Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer, the first thing I like to do is see what's on the minds of the people.

If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration of Independence is one long negative ad.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

In order to make progress, there is only nature, and the eye is turned through contact with her.

Cancer is like another form of life. It's closely related to healthy life. A healthy body is one form of life. Cancer is in a way nature's experiment with life.

Studying cancer could provide huge insights for astrobiologists into the nature of life itself.

Although the elusive 'cure' may be a distant dream, understanding the true nature of cancer will enable it to be better controlled and less menacing.

The Earth doesn't care what we need; Mother Nature doesn't negotiate.

We do not need to be able to say what "human nature" is in order to be able to say that some training is "against human nature.

The richness and variety, and indeed the advance, of our culture depend upon the continuation of this conflict [between conservatives and radicals], which is deeply rooted in human nature.

Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail. Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

America is more than just a place...it's an idea. It's the only country founded on an idea. Our rights come from nature and God, not government. We promise equal opportunity, not equal outcomes.

It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.

Walking helps me a lot to feel alive, and I do this every single day, my wife and I. We have long conversations about nature, and we also walk silently, just contemplating.

What we usually call human evolution is the awakening of the divine nature within us.

Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.

What I found interesting is that it's human nature to have a family.

No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.

Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

Everytime we say that god is the author of some phenomenon, that signifies that we are ignorant of how such a phenomenon was caused by the forces of nature.