Nature Quotes

I would say that I think the film [I am love] is absolutely about nature, it recommends human nature. You don't need to recommend change, that's inevitable, it's the only reliable thing we have.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

I love nature but against my better judgment.

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial.

Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.

Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by.

Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself--for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.

The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.

Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

I wanted to make a movie about the arbitrary nature of love.

This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends.

Change of habit cannot alter Nature.

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature

Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.

Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.

What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.

Change is the hallmark of nature. Nothing remains the same.

The nature of fashion is family. You see that at almost every house, it was owned first by a family. It wasn't owned by a bank.

Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.

Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.

Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.

I see in Nature a magnificent structure... that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility.

I no longer believed in the known God of the Bible, but rather in the mysterious God expressed in nature.

Inner freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual.

What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility.

In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence.

All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.

No matter how we may single out a complex from nature...its theoretical treatment will never prove to be ultimately conclusive... I believe that this process of deepening of theory has no limits.

Since I have introduced this term I had always a bad conscience. . . . I cannot help to feel it strongly and I am unable to believe that such an ugly thing should be realized in nature.

Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.

Resources are not taken from nature, but created from nature.

What nature of being are we that even our dreams can be compromised?

It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness of the tenure by which he holds it.

All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.

Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.

Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.

All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good.

Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.

A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.

Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.

Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.

There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.

As the husband is the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, As the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.