Nature Quotes

What one approves , another scorns, And thus his nature each discloses: You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the thornbush full of roses.

Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.

YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature and YOU! WILL! ATONE!

Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season.

And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.

That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general.

Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature

Forms and regularity of proceeding, if they are not justice, partake much of the nature of justice, which, in its highest sense, is the spirit of distributive order.

It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man's nature -- the connection between his survival and his use of reason -- that capitalism recognizes and protects.

An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

The union of nature and soul removes the veil of ignorance that covers our intelligence.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

going into a cave might be like going inside one's own mind, crawling around in the pitch-black, nook-and-crannied labyrinth of the human psyche.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Force works on servile natures, not the free.

All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.

Dictatorships by their nature are unrepresentative as they neglect the social needs of the people.

Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.

Nor is it of much Importance to us to know the Manner in which Nature executes her laws; 'tis enough to know the Laws themselves.

Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!

Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.

In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.

I crack jokes and play games and that's really more my nature than being cold.

The greatest need in the world at this moment is the transformation of human nature.

For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.

We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the state in which we are not.

The sense that my world is stable and stationary, that change will never come and that all will go on continuously as it is, is the nature of all delusion.

I work with nature, although in completely new terms.

Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you're getting insights about God.

Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don't feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.

Low self-esteem is not possible when you understand the nature of everything. Depression is not possible. The universe is absolutely friendly.

It's our nature to be free, and until we're stuck in a stressful belief system, we're pretty happy.

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.

The so-called miracle of birth is nature getting her own way.

His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound.

Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'.

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.

There is never only ONE of anything in nature.

The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature.

Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.

The very nature of interactions is bound to make it unpredictable.

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

Nature, through all her works, in great degree, Borrows a blessing from variety. Music itself her needful aid requires To rouse the soul, and wake our dying fires.

"... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large it might be, was a perfect example of what it was."

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously.

Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.

We are religious by nature.