Nature Quotes

I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.

In the chapter on the nature of the atonement [in the book saving Calvinism] I argue that it is a mistake to think that penal substitution is the only option on the doctrine of atonement.

The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.

Go on, fair Science; soon to thee Shall Nature yield her idle boast; Her vulgar lingers formed a tree, But thou hast trained it to a post.

The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.

I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I've been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me.

By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.

Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

Nature is always behind the age

It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.

Nature constantly imitates art.

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.

Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.

Holiness is the balance between my nature and the law of God as expressed in Jesus Christ.

The love of God is not created- it is His nature.

The nature of faith is that it must be tried.

It needs a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude.

Coleridge cried; "O God, how glorious it is to live!" Renan asks, "O God, when will it be worth while to live?" In Nature we echo the poet; in the world we echo the thinker.

The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.

By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

The wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid.

There are as many characters in men As there are shapes in nature.

Sleep, nature's rest, divine tranquility, That brings peace to the mind.

I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using.

The more seriously we understand the radical nature of sin, the more it exercises a restraint upon us.

You come to us well tempered, my child, and it is not in my nature to be sorry for it. It is a well tempered blade that is the strongest.

God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.

There's something about human nature which draws us to people who are authentic and makes us want to repel those that aren't.

I'm an actor that likes to go to work. I like going to work every day. I'm a worker by nature. I'm not someone who does one film a year and feels satisfied by that.

I'm fine with Nature's way, as long as Nature keeps it out of *my* way.

Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.

This must be part of Mother Nature's master plan—making these boys so irresistibly cute, in such a naughty way, that the purity of their intentions becomes irrelevant.

I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.

I don't quite see the 20th century as one of chaos. But I believe in certain inevitable outcomes of a materialist nature.

Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.’ – Book 3, Chapter 16

Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose.

Speaking of August Rodin: He raised his world above us in an immense arc, and made it a part of nature.

Zen says: be empty. Look without any idea. Look into the nature of things but with no idea, with no prejudice, with no presupposition.

Misery has only one meaning, that things are not fitting with your desires - and things never fit with your desires, they cannot. Things simply go on following their nature.

And desires are never here and now - they are non-existential. They are just mental, in the mind. And they cannot be fulfilled because their very nature is to move into the future.

Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.

Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.

The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.