Nature Quotes
Every man's own character is written so all who will may read it, in the expression of his eyes, the tone of his voice, the posture of his body, the style of his clothes, and the nature of his deeds!
Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.
The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content lies in themselves.
I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.
The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own.
There's something to be said for going back to a simple form of living-nature and family. There's something very...there's safety in that.
Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
To allow your Spirit to manifest, you have to understand Its nature. Spirit can never be aggressive, can never dominate. It respects the freedom of another person because It's a free being.
Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.
In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.
Take good care of creation. St. Francis wanted that. People occasionally forgive, but nature never does. If we don't take care of the environment, there's no way of getting around it.
Homosexuality is against nature. Sexual expression is permitted only within marriage, between man and woman, male and female. Anything else is an abnormality and is against nature.
If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed.
Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.
I meant to do my work today But a brown bird sang in the apple tree And a butterfly flitted across the field And all the leaves were calling me.
God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God.
Surfing teaches patience . On land, surfers cannot will a swell to appear. They have to wait for nature to make the call. So surfers wait . They keep their eyes on the horizon and they wait.
In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature.
No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.
A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.
Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences. (28)
Men are, by nature, hunters, and women have been put in the position of being the prey.
Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden.
Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.
By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
To be able to greet the sun with the sounds from all of Nature is a great blessing, and it helps us to remember Who is the real provider of all of our benefits.
Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.
Nature has given us this for free, it was meant to sustain us, we will not allow it to become a monopoly to finance the Imperial Army.
My mom raised me to be clean, so it's in my nature. I have two little girls and I'm married but we've got a nanny and a maid.
The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and their solution.
We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.
We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.
