Nature Quotes
A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.
We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.
Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man?
There is nothing perhaps more adverse to nature and reason than to hold in obedience remote countries and foreign nations, in opposition to their inclination and interest.
Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.
Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity.
The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the events of life.
France, like other countries, is facing a terror threat that is unprecedented in its nature and magnitude, ... Terrorists are targeting France to divide us.
When the mind is attuned to the cosmic law, all the laws of nature are in perfect harmony with the aspirations of the mind.
Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature.
I think Julianne Moore is the most radiantly beautiful human being and isn't messing with nature too much. She seems like a woman who treats her body like a temple. I cannot relate to that!
In order to like someone you don't necessarily need to agree with them. It's part of our nature to want to connect.
I think women need to be kinder to other women. I think once we realize that, shoulder to shoulder, walking in the same direction, we're the greatest force of nature…our destiny can change.
It is so difficult to, day in and day out, hear these incredibly painful stories of the destructive nature of our broken immigration system.
Women have a mother-nature and a daughter-nature; there are no women with a wife-nature. The quality of wife is an acquired character; it is a combination of mother and daughter.
The carnal contact side by side, from heel to armpit, brings shudders that shake up nature like the flights of nocturnal birds.
The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.
Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.
I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.
A large picture can give us images of things, but a relatively small one can best re-create the instantaneous unity of nature as a view - the unity of which the eyes take in at a single glance.
Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable uncomplicated sun.
Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token
Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions.
Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.
Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.
The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the "sensus communis" takes them and considers them.
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.
What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside over mountains and valleys, if it is not for the beauty of the world of nature?
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.
The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul.
Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.
There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.
One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees.
While there are a great many agents in nature which boost libido and enhance sexual function, chocolate alone actually promotes the brain chemistry of being in love.