Nature Quotes

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

Property is in its nature timid and seeks protection, and nothing is more gratifying to government than to become a protector.

caves so often symbolize rebirth. It's a hidden space, an expected, inscrutable space. Strange things live in there - eyeless salamanders, albino fish, a prophet's epiphanies.

The place to observe nature is where you are.

Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature

I like the beauty of physics, nature is beautiful, it is my second soul to music.

Wearing spectacles makes men conceited, because spectacles raise them to a degree of sensual perfection which is far above the power of their own nature.

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

Time is the supreme Law of nature.

My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen.

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach.

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits

All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.

To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Something deep within me connected with hard work, nature and simplicity.

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...

He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.

Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.

Words and action in movies are the spirit or the mind. And these days the body is almost completely forgotten. In the beginning the body - nature - was more part of the action.

Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.

Everything one sees is merely a projection of what one does not see, its true nature and substance.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime against nature to be submissive.

Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.

If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people.

Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.

The total and universal want of manners, both in males and females, is ... remarkable ... that polish which removes the coarser and rougher parts of our nature is unknown and undreamed of.

An open marriage is nature's way of telling you that you need a divorce.

We should be evolving into a new age of business with a worldview that maintains one simple proposition - that all of nature: humans, animals, earth, are interconnected and interdependent.

Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.

Yoga is a way to produce a chemistry of blissfulness. Once you are blissful by your own nature, you can deal with outside situations effortlessly.

Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.

The whole concert of animate nature arose entirely from annoying noises.

Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.

I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor's nature.

All nature is the temple; earth the altar.

Water is the mirror of nature.

With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.

That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.

I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.