Nature Quotes

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.

Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.

Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.

Peace and solidarity in Europe is not a law of nature. It requires caring, effort and perseverance

A Hindu is a born mystic, and the luxuriant nature of his country has made him a zealous pantheist

I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me.

By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound

The peace for which every soul strives and which is the true nature of God and the utmost goal of a man is but the outcome of harmony.

Make the second effort your second nature.

s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.

What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.

We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.

...a discontinuity, like a vacuum, is abhorred by nature.

It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.

There is a big logical jump between acknowledging the destructive nature of hyperinflation and arguing that the lower the rate of inflation, the better.

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.

Our lives are full of stress. Some meditate, some walk, some sing and dance. Nature offers us garlic, maitake and hibiscus to relieve stress

They too wonder about the nature of existence, where they've come from and where they're going to and how much time they have.

We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.

Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.

What we see in this world is a gross abnormality. The human consciousness fails to perceive the very simple, divine nature of every atom in every moment.

For you teach very clearly by your behaviour how slowly and how meagerly our senses proceed in the investigation of ever inexhaustible nature.

The doctor is the servant and the interpreter of nature. Whatever he thinks or does, if he follows not in nature's footsteps he will never be able to control her.

The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy.

There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.

Scientific achievements seem evanescent, because the very progress of science causes their supersedure; yet some of them are of so fundamental a nature that they are immortal in a deeper way.

A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.

God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.

We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as to miss the meaning and grandeur of the forest they compose.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.

It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity.

As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.

Joy all creatures drink At nature's bosoms.

The relentless attempts to be thin take you further and further away from what could actually end your suffering: getting back in touch with who you really are. Your true nature. Your essence.

Joy is the mainspring in the whole Of endless Nature's calm rotation. Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll In the great Time-piece of Creation.

For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.

The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions

All living beings have Buddha nature and can become Buddhas.

My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent.

These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message

Musicians more than most people are in the moment. That's the dual nature of that job.

To be absolved, especially if you commit a crime, there is no absolution, you must pay. But for forgiveness, with God or nature, you have to accept what you've done.

Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering.