Nature Quotes

• But the nature of my main work in chemistry can be better represented by more than 280 English publications, of which roughly 200 concern the theory of chemical reactions and related subjects.

  

  Kenichi Fukui
  • Work
  • Nature
  • English

• I like that about human nature, that people are always striving to do better, and find something new.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • People
  • Human
  • Strive

• People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • People
  • Destroyed
  • Disinherited

• Mother Nature just gave me the ultimate physique.

  

  Lee Haney
  • Mother
  • Nature

• Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature.

  

  E. Haldeman-Julius
  • God
  • Men
  • Slave

• I know not what fear is, nor I know not what it is that I fear now; I fear not the hastening of my death, and yet I do fear the increase of the disease... my weakness is from nature, who hath but her measure, my strength is from God, who possesses and distributes infinitely.

  

  John Donne
  • God
  • Death
  • Fear

• No, no, I don't watch football. The last time I tried watching was the last Super Bowl. The problem I have is, you know, the graphic nature of my imagination; when I watch and see them meeting head onto head, helmet onto helmet, what flashes through my mind is what's going on in their brains. It's like torture to me.

  

  Bennet Omalu
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Football

• A proper respect for nature means that you can't pollute the air, poison the rivers and chop down the forests indiscriminately without suffering greatly.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Respect
  • Suffering
  • Air

• Military deployments have never been something to enjoy, but the consequence of the actions, the shared nature of the sacrifices, and the nobility of the cause are invigorating. To be clear, I'm not talking about the killing and the death; rather, the sense of purpose that pervades every action, reaction, and outcome.

  

  Pete Hegseth
  • Death
  • Action
  • Purpose

• I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against the law of nature.

  

  Bryan Cranston
  • People
  • Nature
  • Law

• Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In fact, it almost certainly will.

  

  James Cameron
  • May
  • Experience
  • Nature

• We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Children
  • Society
  • Dirty

• The skull is nature's sculpture.

  

  David Bailey
  • Nature

• Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Solution
  • Pandemic
  • Influenza

• Nature is good at connectivity. The impact of diverse human activities is observed and absorbed throughout nature. Everything is linked. Nature has no problem with coherence. Ecosystems react with their own logic.

  

  Jonas Gahr Store
  • Nature
  • Activities
  • Ecosystem

• We are too much in the machine world today. Even here in Tuva we've got every year more and more cars and other technologies, and of course it brings more pollution to our air, to nature. And I think the idea of the Kraftwerk song is people should not be very much mechanized or to be a machine in the world of machines. The idea is to try to find a golden middle between the world of nature and the world of machines.

  

  Albert Kuvezin
  • Nature
  • Machines
  • Pollution

• I was walking along a path with two friends - the sun was setting - suddenly the sky turned blood red - I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence - there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city - my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety - and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.

  

  Edvard Munch
  • Friends
  • Black
  • Feeling

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

  

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher
  • Nature

• I've always been interested in oral traditions and mythological stories and legends from antiquity that have to do with nature, attempts to explain mysterious or puzzling, or very striking phenomena from nature. Things that people observed or heard about in nature.

  

  Adrienne Mayor
  • People
  • Nature
  • Mysterious

• An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.

  

  William Jones
  • Different
  • Science
  • Experiments

• Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.

  

  Bhumibol Adulyadej
  • Mind
  • Nature

• To legislation... the Puritans resorted. Instead of guiding, they repressed, and thus pitted themselves against the unconquerable impulses of human nature. Believing that nature to be depraved, they felt themselves logically warranted in putting it in irons. But they failed; and their failure ought to be a warning to their successors.

  

  John Tyndall
  • Nature
  • Failure

• From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.

  

  Christopher Alexander
  • Character
  • Nature
  • Thoughts

• The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Help
  • Nature
  • Children Of God

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