Nature Quotes
How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change
Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern.
I intended to portray the joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure of our lives through four seasons and through the life of a monk who lives in a temple on Jusan Pond surrounded only by nature.
I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.
I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.
The boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality.
Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much less is he acquainted with its nature and quality.
An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be adjustable to too many different ends without altering its nature.
Fortunately, in her kindness and patience, Nature has never put the fatal question as to the meaning of their lives into the mouths of most people. And where no one asks, no one needs to answer.
The natural order will emerge only if we let go of the fear of the disorder, we trust each other.
The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.
Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.
Nature is so varied in its modes of action, so multiple in the manisftations of its power, that we have no night to set any limits to its capabilities.
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself
Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.
The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science.
Life is an error-making and an error-correctin g process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.
While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.
Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it.
Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age.
If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.
But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced the necessity of education and tutors.
Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
I love going to the river not only to enjoy nature, but to think about the Los Angeles River's place in our city's history and to envision its great place in our future.
Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.
Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond'rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces... Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug's juices!
The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.
How lavish is Nature building, pulling down, creating, destroying, chasing every material particle from form to form, ever changing, ever beautiful.
Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.
One of the many interesting challenges nature presents us is its apparent disinterest in maintaining the order humans crave.