Nature Quotes

Vera Stark is a fabulous force of nature.

Christ is the Word of God in person. The Bible is the Word of God in writing. Both are the Word of God in the words of men. Both have a human nature and a divine nature.

In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator.

Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.

Wet sneakers and muddy clothes are prerequisites for understanding the water cycle.

Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.

The environment is not as 'cheap as chips', it's priceless and we all have a part to play in protecting it

Why is it taking so long to believe that if we hurt Nature, we hurt ourselves?

You are the master of all the laws of nature if you know the transcendental field.

Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature

Professor von Mises has a splendid analytical mind and an admirable passion for liberty; but as a student of human nature he is worse than null and as a debater he is of Hyde Park standard.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

It has been asserted that we are destined to know the dark beyond the stars before we comprehend the nature of our own journey.

I have faith that science is a good thing. Seriously, I'd say that I am very much in awe of nature. In fact, I think to some extent, "awe" was a word that was almost invented for scientists.

I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.

Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth.

The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

Much earnest philosphical thought is born of the life which springs from close association with nature.

Mankind's ability to understand and control the forces of nature greatly exceeds our ability to govern ourselves

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.

Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear that he ever really did.

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

Structure is something that calms our nature; we know this of toddlers.

Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law.

Man can make only the rules. He cannot make the laws, which are the laws of nature. It is the understanding of these laws that enables a student to draw.

You can't show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion.

So great is the economy of nature, that most flowers which are fertilised by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odour chiefly or exclusively in the evening.

However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.

The low minded are fond of deception the nature of low-minded people never changes.

The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.

One can descend by imperceptible degree from the most perfect creature to the most shapeless matter, from the best-organised animal to the roughest mineral.

Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.

No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.

Nature and wisdom always say the same.

Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.

The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.

Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole, both inwardly and outwardly.

The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.

I want to be freed neither from human beings, nor from myself, nor from nature; for all these appear to me the greatest of miracles.

Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making.

The more you go within, the more you understand your true nature, and the more joy and happiness you feel in your life.

Far from being accidental details, the properties of nature's basic building blocks are deeply entwined with the fabric of space and time.

Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.