Nature Quotes

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.

The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nature.

I like to look at a tree and see that it's love. Don't you?

By focusing on teaching businesses about the ROI they can achieve by preserving and investing in nature, you're expanding the scope of the impact you can have.

If the incentives are aligned right - towards better preservation and restoration of nature and natural resources - then you'll see a tremendous amount of activity in that direction.

The specific media may change, but the principles of human nature have remained fairly constant over the millenia.

Everything is beautiful in it's own way. Like the starry summer night, or a snow-covered winter's day. And everybody's beautiful in their own way. Under God's heaven, the world's gonna find the way.

People think that because of my nature and the tone of my voice that I'm stupid, and that's hard.

We need science. We need empirical evidence. We can't just use mathematical reasoning to deduce the nature of the world.

What one tries to force into a child against its own nature will never come to good.

I suppose the reason why I like acting is because I'm curious about human nature, and the less I know about a character on the page, instinctively, in a way, the better.

For me, before I learned how to read I was really interested in story and in landscape and nature. I decided to become a writer almost as soon as I learned to read.

whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as violent, as totally unsuggestive of the word innocence, as a modern war.

Any affair, by its very nature, is quite dysfunctional.

A text is evolutionary by its very nature.

Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place and from time to time.

Whatever his inhibitions and tastes, Western man believes in the natural holiness of seminudism and raw vegetable juice, because these have become for him symbols of unadultered nature.

In our age of nuclear and biological weapons and the ever more efficient exploitation of nature, the mix of high technology and an ethos of domination could take us to an evolutionary dead end.

Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature.

I've had many challenges - every entrepreneur does - it's the nature of the beast.

Large swaths of what we now regard as basic medical knowledge came originally from naturalists.

Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in the state of nature.

From my perspective, God cannot be completely contained within nature, and therefore God's existence is outside of science's ability to really weigh in.

By being outside of nature, God is also outside of space and time.

It's human nature - we want to believe our children, our families, our President!

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.

All wines are by their very nature full of reminiscence, the golden tears and red blood of summers that are gone.

Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection.

We tend to block off many of our senses when we're staring at a screen. Nature time can literally bring us to our senses.

Being close to nature, in general, helps boost a child's attention span.

Most people are either awakened to or are strengthened in their spiritual journey by experiences in the natural world.

Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.

Numerous studies document the benefits to students from school grounds that are ecologically diverse and include free play areas, habitats for wildlife, walking trails, and gardens.

Nature is beautiful, but not always pretty.

There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is good for their kids but they don't know where to start.

This seems clear enough: When truly present in nature, we do use all our senses at the same time, which is the optimum state of learning.

Nature introduces children to the idea—to the knowing—that they are not alone in this world, and that realities and dimensions exist alongside their own.

When you're sitting in front of a screen, you're not using all of your senses at the same time. Nowhere than in nature do kids use their senses in such a stimulated way.

There is a real world, beyond the glass, for children who look, for those whose parents encourage them to truly see.

The times I spent with my children in nature are among my most meaningful memories-and I hope theirs.

Quite simply, when we deny our children nature, we deny them beauty.

Each of us-adult or child-must earn nature's gift by knowing nature directly, however difficult it may be to glean that knowledge in an urban environment.

A natural environment is far more complex than any playing field.

To take nature and natural play away from children may be tantamount to withholding oxygen.

No other youth group like the Scouts has trained so many future leaders while at the same time being a nature organization with its outdoor focus.

Studies of children in playgrounds with both green areas and manufactured play areas found that children engaged in more creative forms of play in the green areas.

As the young spend less of their lives in natural surroundings, their senses narrow, physiologically and psychologically and this reduces the richness of human experience we need contact with nature.

Nature has been taken over by thugs who care absolutely nothing about it. We need to take nature back.