Nature Quotes

Nature, red in tooth and claw.

One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.

There is no nature at an instant.

To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought.

I think colors are miraculous. We live in a universe that is extremely creative and magical. We become happier as we appreciate these things in nature.

It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)

Our nature is to desperately want to believe and to take what we believe is the quickest path there even against our better judgment.

NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.

GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.

It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.

It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape.

The rose that with you earthly eyes you see, has flowered in God from all eternity.

Never yet were the feelings and instincts of our nature violated with impunity; never yet was the voice of conscience silenced without retribution.

You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand.

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.

The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.

Comedy is second nature for me.

As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.

Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals with the power of reasoned speech.

Human beings are curious by nature.

We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.

If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.

The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.

Man by Nature desires to know.

People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.

Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.

Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can't think of it.

I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his

It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into salt; that rods have brought water out of rocks.

Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.

It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!

The whole point of society is to be less unforgiving than nature.

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.