Nature Quotes
I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
God is His own motive. His love is not drawn out by our loveableness, but wells up, like an artesian spring, from the depths of His nature.
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.
Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results — of an extremely temporary nature.
For us in the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
Our life is nothing, it is true, but our life is divine. A breath of nature annihilates us, but we surpass nature in penetrating far beyond her vast phantasmagoria to the changeless and the eternal.
Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.
The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century.
Our human nature is profoundly phototropic. Men obey their deepest instincts when they hold fast to light.
Nature soothes us. Nature heals us, and something more, the woods are a place of power.
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.
The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein because of the nature of Saddam Hussein, the history of Saddam Hussein, and his willingness to terrorize himself.
In the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the earth we tread on, Life is every where. Nature lives: every pore is bursting with Life ; every death is only a new birth, every grave a cradle.
Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.
For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
...whoever you are, not matter how lonely the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things.
It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.
The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea).
In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
I'm not a preacher, and I'm certainly not a good example, but I have my own feelings about God. I'm kind of a nature guy. My cathedral is forests, or the prairies, or the beach.
We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body.
The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.
...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.
Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.
Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, - the bare existence of such a power, - is a thing irreconcilable with the nature and spirit of our institutions.
The objective world is the order of nature, thinking or reflection follows the suggestions of sense experience, and words are the servomechanisms of reflection.
Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
To achieve progress nature alone counts, and the eye is trained through contact with her. It becomes concentric by looking and working.
A bit of advice, don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it, and concentrate on what you will create as a result.
Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature is not at ease.
My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.
Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind?
