Nature Quotes
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'The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.'
Brandon Sanderson
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Soft peace she brings; wherever she arrivesShe builds our quiet as she forms our lives;Lays the rough paths of peevish Nature even,And opens in each heart a little heaven.
Matthew Prior
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The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don't seem to take much pleasure in our buying, it's because we're engaged in the acts of sacrifice and self-definition. Abashed in the presence of expensive merchandise, we recognize ourselves . . . as suppliants admitted to a shrine.
Lewis H. Lapham
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My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature. And can I do that alone? No. So there is a whole army of youth that can do it. So I suppose my mission is to reach as many of those young people as I can through my own efforts.
Jane Goodall
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Many key concepts concerning the nature of immunity have originated from the very practical need to control virus infections.
Peter C. Doherty
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I am parshial to ladies if they are nice I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it but cant be helped anyhow.
Daisy Ashford
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I think it's my nature to - every time I hear about an award or a nomination, it makes me realize how much I must've been losing before, because I was not aware that every major city had these critics' awards.
Jesse Eisenberg
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The idea that emotion can be separated from sex is a Christian illusion, one of the most ingenious but finally unworkable strategies in Christianity’s ancient campaign against pagan nature.
Camille Paglia
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The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces the rhythm and the personal expression of a work. Then the life of the composition becomes a spiritual unity.
Hans Hofmann
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Thoughts are impediments to seeing your deepest nature.
H. W. L. Poonja
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Who God is and what it is to be divine is something we have to learn where God has revealed Himself and His nature, the essence of the divine.
Karl Barth
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I don't believe in messing with mother-nature too much.
Janine Turner
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And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.
Chaim Potok
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Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.
Saint Augustine
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Now it seems that everything in the world stems from sources other than God, since the products of nature have their source in nature; deliberate effects can be traced back to human reason or will as their source. There is no need then to assume that God exists.
Thomas Aquinas
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Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Henry David Thoreau
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There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.
H. Rider Haggard
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For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.
Robert Frost
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The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
James Allen
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Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.
Beatrice Webb
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Modern reality TV sets up these competitive situations to show us real human nature.
Alexander Ludwig
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I like to let my work ethic speak for itself, just things of that nature, like the way I go about practice and show these guys how to do it.
Lawrence Timmons
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How can I feel so melancholy for so terrible a past? Maybe it's just the nature of us, ever wishing for things that were and could be rather than things that are and will be.
Pierce Brown
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There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn.
Saint Augustine