Nature Quotes
I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.
As humans try to evolve out of greed, let's put aside some wild places, protected lands, protected farms, things like that, since we may not evolve fast enough to protect nature.
In a typical mental health catch-22, the alienating nature of depression tends to keep its sufferers from finding their way to the very support groups that might help them.
So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets.
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
All good and genuine draftsmen draw according to the picture inscribed in their minds, and not according to nature.
An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself and someone else at one and the same time.
But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply them selves to everything.
In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight.
Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.
But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls.
The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
The whole tradition of cinema is dominated, really, by films about good guys versus bad guys, good versus evil. But we have very few films about the nature of evil itself.
The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.
Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.
Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.
Nature is what we see - the hill, the afternoon, squirrel, eclipse, the bumblebee. Nay, nature is heaven. Nature is what we hear...
If you want to say how can we step into childhood and make it better for them, I would start at the activity level. I'd like to say let your kids go out and play.
You don't want your kids to hear songs of this nature... But you take em to the movies to watch Schwarzenegger!
As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.
In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.
If we once, and for so long, lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again.
But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.
It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.
The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.
The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.
Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.
Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss.
If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?
The nature of the place...whether high or low, moist or dry, whether sloping north or south, or bearing tall trees or low shrubs...generally gives hint as to its inhabitants.
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
