Nature Quotes

• The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but everyone says something true about the nature of all things, and while individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed.

  

  Aristotle
  • Truth
  • Things
  • Contribute

• I believe that the basic nature of human beings is gentle and compassionate. It is therefore in our own interest to encourage that nature, to make it live within us, to leave room for it to develop. If on the contrary we use violence, it is as if we voluntarily obstruct the positive side of human nature and prevent its evolution.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Violence

• To me, everything is connected. We're a part of nature. We are organic beings. None of us were - all of us come out of a woman. That's the way we're growing.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Way
  • Growing
  • Connected

• To me, part of the fascinating profession of acting is to participate in all these strange situations, to try to understand all these interesting characters, fictitious or real, their human nature... It's extraordinarily fascinating.

  

  Max von Sydow
  • Real
  • Nature
  • Interesting

• I think it takes a unique temperament for a lawyer who wants to go to a start-up, because generally, by nature, it's a high-risk environment.

  

  Belinda Johnson
  • Up
  • High
  • Environment

• To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.

  

  J. E. H. MacDonald
  • Realizing
  • Paint
  • Copies

• Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.

  

  Adolf Loos
  • Truth
  • Sides
  • Truthful

• In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • World
  • True
  • Science

• The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Nature
  • Divinity
  • Son Of God

• Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.

  

  William Bartram
  • December
  • Admirable
  • Grove

• The essential nature cannot be corporeal, yet it is also clear that this soul is present in a particular bodily part, and this one of the parts having control over the rest.

  

  Aristotle
  • Soul
  • Control
  • Essential

• Our view of nature will influence the way we treat nature, and our view of human nature will affect our understanding of human responsibility.

  

  Ian Barbour
  • Responsibility
  • Understanding
  • Views

• There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.

  

  Marguerite Moreau
  • Important
  • Nature
  • Perspective

• By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Nature
  • Touch
  • Materialist

• 'All right, Marius-I get the message. In fact I intercepted it, parsed it, filtered it, decrypted it with the appropriate onetime pad and wrote a fucking two-hundred-page report on it. Satisfied?''I’m never satisfied, Mishenka. It just isn’t in my nature.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Nature

• The resulting prints of 'History's Shadow' make the invisible visible and express through photographic means the shape-shifting nature of time itself and the continuous presence of the past contained within us.

  

  David Maisel
  • Time
  • History
  • Past

• The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence.

  

  Elie Metchnikoff
  • Art
  • Excellence
  • Greek

• No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.

  

  Arthur Erickson
  • Nature
  • Learning

• Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.

  

  Edward Witten
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Simplicity

• I can't control what's fair and unfair. I can't control the nature of the business or the nature of society or the nature of the world, but what I can control is how I choose to see the world and what I choose to put back into it.

  

  Aisha Tyler
  • World
  • Business
  • Society

• Close your eyes. You might try saying. . . something like this: "The sun is shining overhead. The sky is blue and sparkling. Nature is calm and in control of the world-and I, as nature's child, am in tune with the Universe." Or-better still-pray!

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • World
  • Children
  • Control

• La Nature est un temple où de vivants piliersLaissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles;L’homme y passe à travers des forêts de symbolesQui l’observent avec des regards familiers.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Nature

• The idea of taking classic American stories and reinterpreting them for a time and place is not just commercially viable. These stories also carry a sensual nature of what it meant to be an American, and they deserve to be reinterpreted.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Time
  • American
  • Nature

• The theory for admitting accomplice testimony that is uncorroborated is that conspiracy is by its nature secretive and that only the parties to it can know it occurred. But in practice this means the accomplice's guilt is modified to the degree that he can convict the defendant.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Nature
  • Practice

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