Nature Quotes

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are IMPOSSIBLE.

Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.

Those who have obtained the farthest insight into Nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God.

Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

...and then, in dreaming, / The clouds methought would open and show riches / Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked / I cried to dream again.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.

Grown men do not need leaders.

When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.

This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.

Envy is human nature.

But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.

We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

He was the owner of the moonlight on the ground, he fell in love with the most beautiful of the trees, he made wreaths of leaves and strung them around his neck.

Don't you remember that love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature?

For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.

The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is, and always will be, a wild animal.

Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.

Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.

Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences.

I believe fervently in the nature, in truth and imagination, I believe in the blood, in life, words, and motivations.

The reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.

You're exactly where you're meant to be, meandering along a crooked path.

Where have all the flowers gone

Accepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature of life.

I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.

How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.

Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.

I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.

Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.

Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn't fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive.

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

No matter how much it gets abused, the body can restore balance. The first rule is to stop interfering with nature.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.