Nature Quotes

Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them.

...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .

The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.

True wilderness is where you keep it, and real wilderness experience cannot be a sedentary one; you have to seek it out not seated, but afoot.

Good intentions, regular worship, Bible study, do not prevent blindness. Part of our sinful nature instinctively chooses to see what we want to see and to ignore what we want to ignore.

There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.

Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.

Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man.

The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand.

Nature, never, never let's you down, it's not a cliché, nature isn't a cliché, pictures might be, but you can get tired of pictures.

The philosophers likewise assume that in Nature there is nothing in vain, so that everything that is not the product of human industry serves a certain purpose, which may be known or unknown to us.

Nature knows best how to organise.

Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in nature.

Mother Nature clearly intended for us to get our food from the "patty" group, which includes hamburgers, fish sticks, and McNuggets- foods that have had all of their organs safely removed.

What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.

That is one good thing about this world - there are always sure to be more springs.

The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art

Mike's (Tyson) punch is like an atomic bomb in that it is relative to nature. Both have no value unless you have a means of conveying it to the target. He is boxing-smart.

We're all nurtured by mother nature's cycles and seasons.

He who plants a tree is a servant of God.

Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.

Politicians have to make unpopular decisions. Schwarzenegger is going to understand the nature of his job. I wish him good luck, he's going to need it. It's going to be difficult for him.

We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.‎

When a women speaks her truth, fires up her intention and feeling, stays tight with the instinctive nature, she is singing, she is living in the wild breath-stream of the soul.

Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.

The internal call is when the Spirit of God accompanies the outward administration of the Word to call a man from ignorance to knowledge, and a state of nature to a state of grace.

No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature.

The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.

One day in the country Is worth a month in town

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.

The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.

There is nothing like soup. It is by nature eccentric: no two are ever alike, unless of course you get your soup in a can.

The problem before the educator is to give the child control over his own nature, to enable him to hold himself in hand as much in regard to the traits we call good, as to those we call evil:.

The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for them, what wisdom or skill could not.

Oft a little morning rain Foretells a pleasant day.

You're either a really good hooker or a really good mom. That kind of conflicted nature is very much a part of being a woman.

Nature is what you don't have to trouble about. It looks after itself.

Cats do not abide by the laws of nature.

Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Knowing constancy is insight.

Nature's way is simple and easy, but men prefer the intricate and artificial.

ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.

My roses are my jewels; the sun, moon, and stars my clocks; fruit and water my fare.