Nature Quotes

If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices.

What proposition is there respecting human nature which is absolutely and universally true? We know of only one,--and that is not only true, but identical,--that men always act from self-interest.

There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.

Just because we can't sell shares in nature doesn't mean it has no value.

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Man's Place in Nature.

How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!

Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.

Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.

Man must go back to nature for information.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.

The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.

Tonight I am going to defecate on stage because I think that is the only way to express the nature of my soul according to rock and roll.

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.

Hold the mirror up to nature. Human behavior is worthy of examination and celebration.

[PlayStation 2] is a new canvas for humanity that takes us back to our nature.

The present has its élan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unknown was once part of its nature.

Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

I just play the game. I hit a shot and wait for the next guy to hit his. I don't think between shots-that's my nature.

What is not in nature can never be true.

Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.

The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed.

We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature.

When you're at peace with your life and in a state of tranquility, you actually send out a vibration of energy that impacts all living creatures, including plants, animals and even babies.

Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.

You've climbed the highest mountain in the world. What's left ? It's all downhill from there. You've got to set your sights on something higher than Everest.

Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.

You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.

All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.

Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother from her babe, and the father from the family.

If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.

Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.

Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching!

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to.

I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee.

Nature's old felicities.

Fish live in water. Men die in it.Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.