Nature Quotes

States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them

Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. Thats just the nature of the beast.

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

Knowing comedy is knowing human nature.

I may not be the most physical player, that's not my nature. But I am a competitor and I play as hard as I can.

I plunged eagerly and passionately into the wilderness, as if in the hope of thus penetrating into the very heart of this Nature, powerful and maternal, there to blend with her living elements.

Nature is supposed to become greater to me than people. It ought to speak louder from me. I should feel small in the face of nature's enormity.

The point is that our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to. It's who we are right now, and that's what we can make friends with and celebrate.

It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.

...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great.

Meditation is the antidote to all the poisons of your life. It is the nourishment of your authentic nature.

The forest waves, the morning breaks, The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes, Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be And life pulsates in rock or tree.

You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.

When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.

When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.

Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity.

The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable

In the search for truth - that everything in nature seems to hide - man needs the assistance of all his faculties. All the senses should be awake.

Use the freest goods for happiness... The stars cost nothing. Nature costs nothing. Your inner life costs nothing. God costs nothing. And yet they are all infinitely precious.

Nature is not static, but causes its own, internally-generated changes - both in climate and in biological systems.

The sinister nature of the American soil is apparent in places like Gettysburg. Fertilize it with the blood of heros, and it brings forth a frozen-custard stand.

I believe in order to understand

Shambhala teachings say we all have the potential to accomplish our enlightened nature - our basic goodness.

Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.

Above all, be at ease, be as natural and spacious as possible. Slip quietly out of the noose of your habitual anxious self, release all grasping, and relax into your true nature.

To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

Nature is what she is - amoral and persistent.

In nature, if a cell gets too big, it divides. You can't come up with a set of rules that's going to work for 350 million people. You're just not.

Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.

Patience is God's nature.

The big artist .. . keeps a sharp eye on Nature and steals her tools.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.

Nature is an old lady with few friends these days, and those who wish to make use of her charms, she rewards passionately.

Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure of Woman. It is paradoxical act of sadistic admiration.

People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it.

In design, Mother Nature is our best teacher.

Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.

I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.

Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?

A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.

He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

Hunger, thirst, cold, fatigue, your own physical and mental limitations - you will feel all of these. This teaches you about nature, more than that, you come face to face with yourself