Nature Quotes

The image of a community is fundamentally important to its economic well-being. If all places look alike, there's no reason to go anywhere.

O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep!

Stillness is your essential nature.

Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.

Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.

Enlightenment is just the beginning, later on come other skills . . . patience, a forgiving nature, extreme attention . . . .

Kids are natural little outdoor people. It is we, the adults, who turn them into indoor people. If you don't get of fyour computer, why should they?

If you go out and watch nature closely, you will find something so joyful that it will completely fill you.

Habit is ten times nature.

Of course you cannot free yourself from the laws of nature; but the laws of nervous systems are not the same as the physical laws.

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it.

There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature, but, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

When we're in our right minds, we are hopeful. Because the arc of the moral universe does bend toward justice, nature does bend toward healing, and the heart does bend toward love.

It's my nature to go around in high spirits most of the time and then to collapse.

Earth Day is the first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.

What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away.

Nature is full for us of seeming inconsistencies and glad surprises.

Daughters of God know that it is the nurturing nature of women that can bring everlasting blessings, and they live to cultivate this divine attribute.

Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.

Since the Earth is finite, and we will have to stop expanding sometime, should we do it before or after nature's diversity is gone?

I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.

We're the only creature God ever created that doesn't want to adapt. We want to make it stand still. And one thing that's constant is nature is constantly changing.

Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

Nature neither gives nor expects mercy.

Nature has inclined us to love men.

Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.

There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.

Relying on another is an expression of attachment, not love, a manifestation of insecurity and suffering, not understanding the true nature of our lives.

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

I fully support the goal of species protection and conservation and believe that recovery and ultimately delisting of species should be the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's top priority under ESA.

Good-nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity.

Human nature is divided; it contains both darkness and light. You can choose to accept the darkness and lament it, or you can choose to expand the light until the darkness no longer dominates.

Science is about nature. And God, if he exists, transcends nature.

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

Blizzards, floods, volcanos, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us.

Those who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners.

All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature

Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.

Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.

Nature's solution to pollution is dilution.

"Our experience of the world is being impoverished to the extent that it is being rendered artificial and prepackaged."

Our rights come from nature and God, not government.

Once you have done a man a service, what more reward would you have? Is it not enough to have obeyed the laws of your own nature, without expecting to be paid for it?

For the first time since life appeared on earth, one species- us- is single-handedly altering the physical, chemical and biological nature of earth. We have become a force of nature

Our choices at all levels-individual, community, corporate and government-affect nature. And they affect us.

I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life changed.