Nature Quotes
So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.
Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
Evolution in nature is not opposed to the notion of Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings that evolve.
Christians, in particular, realize that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith.
Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.
Thou shalt likewise know that according to Law, the nature of this universe is in all things a like.
Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow's grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.
A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.
Tomorrow-drop that word from your vocabulary! Tomorrow does not exist, it cannot exist: it is not in the nature of things. Only this day exists.
It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by mediocrities.
How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?
I identified very much with punk, not only in the fashion sector, but in every other sector. The very nature of doing something new and free meant something that was against authority.
The mechanisms of vis medicatrix naturæ—the most healing power of nature—are so effective that most diseases are self-terminating.
See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world?
As one scientist puts it, we can now assume that just as children need good nutrition and adequate sleep, they may very well need contact with nature.
Don't ask me how to burn down a building. Ask me how to grow watermelons or how to explain nature to a child. That is what I want to grow old doing. Please afford me this.
We have forgotten that those skills on the more positive side of human nature have to be taught, have to be modeled, have to be practiced.
We differ from one another in our individual gifts which, however, belong to our inner nature.
Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy—love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit.
Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.
Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion.
If people see how we're all interconnected and connected with Nature, we wouldn't have an environmental crisis, we wouldn't have two dozen wars all over the world.
When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we will automatically be meditating always. (151)
Nature is telling us that if you don't respect the environment then you are living with artificial needs and a consumerism that is destroying the very conditions we need to survive.
Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man.
The Present only has a being in Nature; things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have no being at all; the Future but a fiction of the mind.
It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them.
The soft mellow warble of the bluebird, heard at its best throughout spring and early summer, is one of the sweetest, most confiding and loving sounds in nature.
Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle, by a too servile imitation of their master.
Don't let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.
Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually.
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.
To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for.