Nature Quotes

Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist's own spiritual nature.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.

All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.

I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.

When you're in nature, inevitably your video is going to involve nature.

After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board

Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help.

Human nature is a scoundrel's favorite explanation.

Society works not because we have consciously invented it, but because it is an ancient product of our evolved predispositions. It is literally in our nature.

Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.

Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].

Fortune is no real thing. But men who cannot bear what comes to them In Nature's way, give their own characters The name of Fortune.

We don't really think that man is that immoral, we don't think that man of his own nature would run around...fighting wars and building napalm bombs...so maybe there's something else going on

We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.

Nature is reminding us that it used to exist without human beings.

A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.

Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course.

Conservation is humanity caring for the future.

Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.

Every individual has the power to change his or her material or financial status by first changing the nature of his or her beliefs.

Remember that your dominating focus attracts, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful of what you focus on.

The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature.

Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.

It's human nature to want to keep going, but you have to fight against the "I'm just gonna keep doing it" when you know the possibility of not looking great on the way out.

Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.

For I realize today that it is a mortal sin to violate the great laws of nature. We should not hurry, we should not be impatient, but we should confidently obey the eternal rhythm.

Even Stalin proclaimed his love for democracy. We do not learn about the nature of systems of power by listening to their rhetoric.

A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.

Nature is the best instructor.

Technology is, in the broadest sense, mind or intelligence or purpose blending with nature.

Rational discourse is only one way of presenting and examining an issue and by no means the best. Our new intellectuals are not aware of its limitations and of the nature of the things outside.

Societies as well as people become afraid of change as they grow older. It's human nature. The young have adventures while the old sit at home and nurture their memories.

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle. Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.

Love is unconditional acceptance. That quality is also our essential nature, who we really are.

Nature supplies the game of chess with its implements; science with its system; art with its aesthetic arrangement of its problems; and God endows it with its blessed power of making people happy.

When we let go of believing we are superior, we open ourselves to the experience of living in the community of Nature.

I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.

I will never fully understand; that is the nature of such creatures. Or is this Inner Truth now, this that is happening to me? I will wait. I will see. Which it is. Perhaps it is both.

The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a violent one.

Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.

The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.

It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

In the midst of a universe that cannot exist for a second without constant motion, God transcended the order of nature. He stopped. He rested. And He prescribes the same for you and me.