Nature Quotes

The great secret of morals is Love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own.

Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb.

The nature of a narrow and malevolent spirit is so essentially incompatible with happiness as to render it inaccessible to the influences of the benignant God.

The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate.

Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed.

I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.

I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.

Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God's eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes God's multicolored love story. History is His story.

There is much else in the literary idiom of nature-philosophy: nothing-buttery, for example, always part of the minor symptomatology of the bogus.

The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings.

That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.

It’s not in the nature of the lamb to mourn the lion.

I think that I probably inevitably fetishize nature, although I try not to, because it's kind of embarrassing, repulsive behavior. I think it's just an extension of me being old-fashioned.

To care for the natural world is the most effective insurance policy we can have

Is it better that we manage population growth responsibly or should we to wait for nature to cull our numbers?

A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate and purple will do for the tragedians, not for life.

Nature is an experimenter.

...his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his nature could let him forget their defects.

Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically.

I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.

Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present; laughter hath only a scornful tickling.

O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!

We don't have to have suffered brain damage to take advantage of the plastic nature of our brains.

That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire.

When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.

Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old enough to be surprised at them.

Relations are errors that Nature makes. / Your spouse you can put on the shelf. / But your friends, dear friends, are the quaint mistakes / You always commit yourself.

People who are under certain stress have aquariums. Aquariums are classically either a reproduction of nature or a decorative element, like the ones you can see in big hotels.

If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.

Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.

Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.

Human nature craves novelty.

Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.

If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect.

Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.

To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.

We can affect people around us so much with our moods. A depressed person can make a room gloomy and a sweet nature can cause the lion to lie down with the lamb.

I don't know if human activity is the only cause, but mostly, in great part, it is man who has slapped nature in the face, we have in a sense taken over nature.

I don’t know if it is all (man’s fault) but the majority is, for the most part, it is man who continuously slaps down nature.

We have, in a sense, lorded it over nature, over Sister Earth, over Mother Earth, i think man has gone too far.

We need nature more than nature needs us.

To have acquired wealth is with many not to end but to change the nature of their troubles.

Zen is influenced by Daoism, which is not so much a nature-religion in the animistic sense as a nature-philosophy in a cosmic sense.

I think all of the decisions I make about my life and writing are the preparation - what I choose to write about and the immersive nature of the lifestyle I choose for playwriting.

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education. [Lat., Virtus, etiamsi quosdam impetus a natura sumit, tamen perficienda doctrina est.]

Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it. [Lat., Nihil tam alte natura constituit quo virtus non possit eniti.]

I am repelled by those who voice the word 'nature', without having any trace of it in their hearts.

I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise, now that I realize the deepest yearning of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.