Nature Quotes
There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature.
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
Anything, everything, can be learned if you can just get yourself in a little patch of real ground, real nature, real wood, real anything ? and just sit still and watch.
I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor. Whatever people are struggling with, the struggle is often where the drama is.
When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.
I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You dont pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it works.
The very nature of the Chinaman holds him back. If his fellow should fall, John thinks it quite proper that he stamp on the underdogs face.
The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.
Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides.
Nature's message was always there and for us to see. It was written on the wings of butterflies.
Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.
When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.
Old Age, a second child, by nature curst With more and greater evils than the first, Weak, sickly, full of pains: in ev'ry breath Railing at life, and yet afraid of death.
Fragrance, whether strong or delicate, is a highly subjective matter, and one gardener's perfume is another gardener's stink.
We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.
If nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies.
It is our nature to defy gravity, to transcend the limitations of the reasoning mind and connect with the realm of the mystical truth.
Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.
We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.
The art of seeing nature, or, in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all our studies are directed.
I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would be afraid of disturbing and distorting the silent operation of nature by clumsy interference.
To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.
An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.
Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.
LOOK back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west!
Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability.
The unhappy truth is that male homosexuality will never be fully accepted by the heterosexual majority, who are obeying the dictates not of bigoted society or religion but of procreative nature.
Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality.
Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.
When the creative mind is unleashed and understands its true nature, it's unlimited. There's nothing you cannot do.
It's in our nature to be intrigued. We're putting the bread crumb not in your mouth but close to your mouth. You reach a little bit, and that's why it works.
Make friends with nature by working in harmony with her and she will make friends with you.
Marriage is by nature a covenant, Not just a private contract one may cancel at will.
All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare
The initial organization of the brain does not depend that much on experience. Nature provides a first draft, which experience then revises.