Nature Quotes
The eye of the trilobite tells us that the sun shone on the old beach where he lived; for there is nothing in nature without a purpose, and when so complicated an organ was made to receive light, there must have been light to enter it.
Louis Agassiz
I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.
Caspar David Friedrich
For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy.
Maurice Ravel
I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power, with collective learning.
David Christian
The whole nature of man presupposes woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the start, just as it is prepared for a quite definite world where there is water, light, air, salt, carbohydrates etc..
Carl Jung
Mes ki ne mustre s'enfertéA peine en peot aver santé:Amur est plaie dedenz cors,E si ne piert nïent defors.Ceo est un mal que lunges tient,Pur ceo que de nature vient.
Marie de France
There are certain composers I have always admired very much, but I have always admired nature mostly and the music of the Orient.
Alan Hovhaness
Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.
James Lovelock
The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations - more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or the artist presents in them two aspects of nature and fuses them into one. This is the act of creation, in which an original thought is born, and it is the same act in original science and original art.
Jacob Bronowski
My fifth mother is Mother Nature - the things I had to learn on my own, the understanding I had to come to and still have to come to as a young woman, as a responsible mother, a responsible granddaughter and child. She teaches me willpower, honesty, and the things we need to heal ourselves from moment to moment.
Erykah Badu
Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
Cyril Connolly
Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day And dances by false glare at night; But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves To spread its wings in Nature's light.
W. H. Davies
Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.
Edward T. Hall
It's just one of those things. We can control many aspects of life, but we cannot control nature.
J. M. Roberts
I am big into water sports and just being out on the water. That is second nature to me, being from Florida.
Jake Owen
So, the tendency of our childish nature is to take small things too seriously and get easily offended, whereas when we are confronted with situations which have long-term consequences, we tend to take things less seriously
Dalai Lama
The spooky ether was persistent. It took an Einstein to remove it from the Universe. ...Gradually, over the last twenty years, the vacuum has turned out to be more unusual, more fluid, less empty, and less intangible than even Einstein could have imagined. Its presence is felt on the very smallest and largest dimensions over which the forces of Nature act.
John D. Barrow
Arkansas is really, really nice. It's got the nature feel.
Kris Allen