Nature Quotes
An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means.
Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.
The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.
It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.
Not only is the destiny of the individual bound up with the entire Church; it is responsible for helping to sanctify the entire world of nature and history.
I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature - the lameness, the scarred Byronic hero.
I sometimes find it half a sin, To put to words the grief i feel, For words like nature,half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.
Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.
I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
Prayer is a force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men lifted out of sickness by the power of prayer. It is the only power in the world that overcomes the laws of nature.
Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.
Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling.
In a country where nature has been so lavish and where we have been so spendthrift of indigenous beauty, to set aside a few rivers in their natural state should be considered an obligation.
To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks.
Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.
As each tree falls so does the earth's ability to heal itself and to adapt to the effects of our changing climate
Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline , which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.
Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.
Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency.
My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see.
A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.
One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.
The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.
Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension.
The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought.
Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.
I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start of me.
in the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - our houses.
How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
Competitiveness is just as much a part of our nature as empathy. The ideal, in my view, is a democratic system with a social market economy, because it takes both tendencies into account.
This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.
What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.
