Nature Quotes

Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.

What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?

History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.

We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils.

In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these.

Nature's bank-dividends.

The peace of nature and of the innocent creatures of god seems to be secure and deep, only so long as the presence of man and his restless and unquiet spirit are not there to trouble its sanctity.

The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed.

To say God spake or appeared as he is in his own nature, is to deny his Infiniteness, Invisibility, Incomprehensibility.

When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incomprehensible, I cannot acquiesce in the authority of a Schoolman.

Boughs are daily rifled By the gusty thieves, And the book of Nature Getteth short of leaves.

There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.

Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature.

The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them.

There are other places at which ... the laws have said there shall be towns; but Nature has said there shall not, and they remain unworthy of enumeration.

Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.

From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation.

Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to extend you hand to save another, lest you should sink yourself.

If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the truth, either in religion, law, or politics.

No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature.

The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws, and where every man may read them for himself.

The sickly, weakly, timid man fears the people, and is a Tory by nature. The healthy, strong and bold cherishes them, and is formed a Whig by nature.

Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness depends.

By nature's law, man is at peace with man till some aggression is committed, which, by the same law, authorizes one to destroy another as his enemy.

We all have romantic nature of one kind or another buried somewhere in our hearts.

Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.

And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature's lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.

O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you.

Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.

He who takes nature for his guide, is not easily beaten out of his argument

Commerce is no other than the traffic of two individuals, multiplied on a scale of number; and, by the same rule that Nature intended the intercourse of two, she intended that of all!

It is my nature to thin where others read.

Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.

I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace

Rather than think about fields producing food, and the rest of the land producing everything else, we need to think about managing integrated, multifunctional, landscapes

There are always, of course, job losses of a cyclical nature in a recession.

It's man's impact on our world that appeals to me more than just nature running wild.

Nature is a big influence on my work. That's where the cosmic element comes in, an awareness of the relevance of what we do as a species, why we do it, and its implications.

It's certainly a lot more difficult to get a project made if you're talking about something progressive. That's just the nature of the industry.

Television has changed. The very nature of it is not even television anymore.

The product of a true, growing, gospel-centered nature is often gentleness.

God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.

Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us.

Look at Matsumoto. You need at least 10 years of sleep to catch up with her." "Shut up! Rangiku's a freak of nature!

Nature and wisdom are not, but should be, companions.

Nature I'll court in her sequester'd haunts, By mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove, or cell; Where the pois'd lark his evening ditty chants, And health, and peace, and contemplation dwell.

There ain't no justice, laws of nature rule this land. Better hide your horses, bury your whiskey.

The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.