Nature Quotes
Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has been ascertained by experience and observation.
He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one by intent.
All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.
We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure.
If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform.
But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
In original nature There is no this and that. The Great Round Mirror Has no likes or dislikes.
To offer our hearts in faith means recognizing that our hearts are worth something, that we ourselves, in our deepest and truest nature, are of value.
I hate how I've had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We've had some issues, but that is the nature of business.
The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.
You will know that the divine is so great and of such a nature that it sees and hears everything at once, is present everywhere, and is concerned with everything.
If the mind is not contrived, it is spontaneously blissful, just as water, when not agitated, is by nature transparent and clear.
As with everything in nature, if your life isn’t supported by a grounded source of energy, it will wither and lose its vitality.
When you judge others, look at yourself - You too have flaws and the divine nature has accepted you with all your flaws. It doesn't judge you. Who are you to judge?
Make other comfortable and you will see that nature will take care of your comfort.
In your very nature, in the depth of your mind, there is omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience. All knowledge is already in the depth of your consciousness, of your mind.
When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.
If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.
It became clear to the whole world that a totalitarian regime could neither accuse nor transform itself: suicide was not in its nature, it could only kill others.
He who has conquered the internal nature controls the whole universe; it becomes his servant.
Stand upon the Atman, then only can we truly love the world. Take a very, very high stand; knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
The very reason for nature's existence is the education of the soul; it has no other meaning.
Man cannot be satisfied by wealth. Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body.
If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for hero worship is the truest index of a man's private nature.
Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is common to you, me, and everybody.
Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet
The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.
If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.... This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.
I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms...I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I can love, and the various vermin.
It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.
A congregation that is not deeply and earnestly involved in the worldwide proclamation of the gospel does not understand the nature of salvation.
