Nature Quotes

If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.

An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.

Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy.

Nature's first great title--mind.

The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.

In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.

Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not.

I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.

The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows.

Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant.

Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising the world, and vilifying human nature.

One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.

I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently capricious work of Nature, always kept it beautiful.

The further you get from nature, the less happy you are; and the nearer, the more exultant you become over the world and all that there is in it.

Primary revelation came through Jesus Christ, and I find it distasteful that additional divine finger prints should appear in nature.

The belly comes before the soul.

Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.

Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.

We can't control forces of nature. But we can control what comes afterward. We have a chance to start fresh.

We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.

To work from nature is to improvise.

Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art.

There is no need to express art in terms of nature. It can perfectly well be expressed in terms of geometry and the exact sciences.

Although the works of the Creator may be in themselves all equally perfect, the animal is, as I see it, the most complete work of nature, and man is her masterpiece.

I thought how sadly beauty of inscape was unknown and buried away from simple people and yet how near at hand it was if they had eyes to see it and it could be called out everywhere again.

[P]salms are basically prayers and hymns, by their very nature they are addressed to God or express truth about God in song.

Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish.

Silence is our deepest nature, our home, our common ground, our peace. Silence reveals. Silence heals.

The nature of what the Divine notices about you is completely different from the nature of what you do to get noticed.

Only you can choose the nature of what grows, or what doesn't, within you.

The most unhappy thing about conservation is that it is never permanent. Save a priceless woodland or an irreplaceable mountain today, and tomorrow it is threatened from another quarter.

You don't have to learn to be wise. If you just flow you can be successful. Mother Nature will carry you.

Our human bodies are miracles, not because they defy laws of nature, but precisely because they obey them.

Children will grow up substantially what they are by nature--and only that.

Man is more than half of nature's treasure.

The purpose of creation is beauty. Nature in all its various aspects develops towards beauty, and therefore it is plain that the purpose of life is to evolve towards beauty.

A soul who is not close to nature is far away from what is called spirituality. In order to be spiritual one must communicate, and especially one must communicate with nature; one must feel nature.

The love of a father is one of nature's greatest masterpieces.

Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.

The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.

As well expect Nature to answer your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair.

Man's will is free in the sense that man can choose to do anything in keeping with his nature . . . Man's will is not free in that he is limited to his nature

Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.

Probably if our lives were more conformed to nature, we should not need to defend ourselves against her heats and colds, but findher our constant nurse and friend, as do plants and quadrupeds.

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

Nature is full of genius, full of divinity.

We can never have enough of Nature.

Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to be well, we should not be sick.