Nature Quotes

There is no bandit so powerful as Nature. The interaction of the positive and the negative principles, which produces the visible universe. In the whole universe there is no escape from it.

It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful.

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe.

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books

And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.

Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.

Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.

...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.

I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?

Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.

The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature.

A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.

I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.

Look around you...Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what's happening in the wide world.

Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.

The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.

For me, nature is something you watch on the Discovery Channel, or on the evening news -- as you learn how much more of it's been savaged to make way for the Blackberry realm that is my home

If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly." from the video "Carl Jung speaks about death

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.

It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.

What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.

I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and filled myself up with the breeze from the valley. Then I let it out slow so it could get back to its travels, with a little bit of me added to it.

Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.

Something whose connection with human experience we cannot grasp is bound to be frightening.

The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.

there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.

It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.

We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.

One man's gospel truth is another man's blasphemous lie. The dangerous thing about people is the way we'll try to kill anyone whose truth doesn't agree with ours.

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments of the perfect animals.