Nature Quotes

Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there is no other way of life than this way of life.

I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her.

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and we hear only what we have elected to hear.

It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.

Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane.

Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.

How can an unsteady mind make itself steady? Of course it cannot. It is the nature of the mind to roam about. All you can do is to shift the focus of consciousness beyond the mind.

Pure knowledge is not imparted by another; it comes unmasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true nature.

When your intentions are very pure and clear, nature brings support to you.

A fully blossomed human potential is enlightenment. It is becoming a child again, and coming back to your original nature.

Nature is that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer.

Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself.

With regard to ground of this nature, be before the enemy in occupying the raised and sunny spots, and carefully guard your line of supplies. Then you will be able to fight with advantage.

The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color.

Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.

I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine.

Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal.... The natural size of a coven is one. Witches only get together when they can't avoid it.

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.

Grace does not destroy nature, it perfects it.

It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.

E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.

You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.

Government cannot solve all our problems, even in normal times, much less during a catastrophe of nature that reminds man how little he is, despite all his big talk.

Fever itself is Nature's instrument.

We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him.

I'm not an anti-online person. I get what the modern world's about and I understand that that's the nature of music dissemination.

Biotech and geo engineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature.

Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage.

We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.

It is the language of nature to which one has to listen.

Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.

The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.

a culture is no better than its woods

Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day And dances by false glare at night; But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves To spread its wings in Nature's light.

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.

Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.

Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence.

There's not many businesses where someone can come in and offer to cut the price in half and somebody doesn't think about shifting. But that's the nature of the ratings business.

Give yourself the gift of nature as often as you can.

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.

The fact that Hitler was a political genius unmasks the nature of politics in general as no other fact can.

I believe... that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.

An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.

I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.