Nature Quotes

The only way to do my job without optimism would be as a cynic, and that's not my nature.

Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.

The scientific study of Nature tends not only to correct and ennoble the intellectual conceptions of man; it serves also to ameliorate his physical condition.

In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature.

Everyone longs to be free. Freedom is our essential nature, so my ultimate prayer is that the world is set free to experience the truth and the beauty of our own being.

It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other.

A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.

There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.

By employing the intelligence of natural systems we can create industry, buildings, even regional plans that see nature and commerce not as mutually exclusive but mutually coexisting.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.

It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature

There's been spying for years, there's been surveillance for years, and so forth, I'm not going to pass judgement on that, it's the nature of our society.

The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.

When you're blind to your own nature, the Buddha is an ordinary being. When you're aware of your own nature, an ordinary being is the Buddha.

I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw.

[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.

Nature had gathered her choicest treasures , to draw her lovers into close and confiding communion with her

The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.

A beardless cynic is the shame of nature.

It is a law of nature that everybody plays a hole badly when playing through.

It is in the nature of science that once a position becomes orthodox it should be suggested to criticism.... It does not follow that, because a position is orthodox, it is wrong.

Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?

In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.

I think that if you have a sense of the sacredness of nature and of human relations, I think you will be uplifted in some sort of spiritual elevation.

The still, sad music of humanity.

Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

Align with nature... Magic happens

Sets of lines can say something about the direction and nature of the light. They are used by great fresco painters as a sign for shade.

The Lord's supper is memorative, and so it has the nature and use of a pledge or token of love, left by a dying to a dear surviving friend.

Nature meant me A wife, a silly, harmless, household dove, Fond without art, and kind without deceit.

The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.

A happy genius is the gift of nature.

Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to nature to do the work they are responsible for doing.

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.

Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact.

At what point in my struggle with nature will nature finally give up?

Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system.

Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.

Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

To misunderstand the nature and threat of evil is to risk being blindsided by it.

The more we study nature the grander does she appear. Science, by penetrating her secrets, often shows us the hidden and imposing forces exist where we only see inertia.

Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.