Nature Quotes

Nature intends all men and women to be mental and spiritual giants, and does not intend that any one should follow the will of another.

All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.

The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing a small number of primordial objects.

The Mississippi and its paddle boats, and the rivers of Bengal and their gleaming steamers evoked a similar atmosphere of romance, of long, song-filled voyages, high winds and lonely sunsets.

Nature is a catchment of sorrows.

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.

Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny.

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.

We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.

Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.

I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.

All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to nature in her work.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.

I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature.

By nature, men love newfangledness.

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.

The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.

He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.

Whoever has not ascended mountains knows little of the beauties of Nature.

Art is a product of nature in general, in the particular form of human nature.

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us.

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature; and what nature will he honour who honours not the human?

Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.

When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature

A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.

I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.

A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.

You can't love nature with a gun

I love nature, so I'd love to go out and just look at things and not care what I look like.

It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart.