Nature Quotes

• All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.

  

  Aristotle
  • Art
  • Things
  • Being

• 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

• One of the funniest things about Mr. Kaufman is that all of his filmed scripts - 'Being John Malkovich,' 'Human Nature,' 'Adaptation' and now 'Sunshine' - sound like titles from REM's 'Reckoning.'

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Nature
  • Sunshine

• We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make, for he makes them, if he is worth reading, because he has in mind something besides his perceptions about art in itself - he has in mind the demands that he makes upon life.

  

  Lionel Trilling
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Art

• Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Power
  • Harmony

• There will always be people treated badly, which I feel is basic human nature and difficult to eliminate.

  

  Peter F. Hamilton
  • People
  • Nature

• Away with false fashion, so calm and so chill, Where pleasure itself cannot please; Away with cold breeding, that faithlessly still Affects to be quite at its ease; For the deepest in feeling is highest in rank, The freest is first of the band, Nature's own Nobleman, friendly and frank,Is a man with his heart in his hand!

  

  Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • Heart
  • Feeling
  • Hand

• There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Life
  • World
  • Tea

• Science explains what nature is doing; money often explains what we're doing.

  

  Paul Fleischman
  • Money
  • Nature
  • Science

• No matter what part of the world we come from, we are all basically the same human beings. We all seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. We have the same basic human needs and concerns. All of us human beings want freedom and the right to determine our own destiny as individuals and as peoples. That is human nature.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Trying
  • Freedom

• I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn't hearing somewhere else and I 'needed' this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum.

  

  Jane Siberry
  • Music
  • Nature

• Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.

  

  Philip Wylie
  • Long
  • Environment
  • Beginning

• The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Nature
  • Religions
  • Confess

• Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Good
  • Nature

• All beings are by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas.

  

  Hakuin Ekaku
  • Nature
  • Water

• Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and methods of operations are understandable to men.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Nature
  • Immutable
  • Inexorable

• If human nature were unchangeable, as ignorant people still suppose it to be, the situation would indeed be hopeless.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People
  • Nature

• I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

  

  Annie Leibovitz
  • Nature
  • Energy
  • Wish

• Man has learned how to challenge both Nature and art to become the incitements to vice! His very cups he has delighted to engrave with libidinous subjects, and he takes pleasure in drinking from vessels of obscene form!

  

  Pliny the Elder
  • Art
  • Challenge
  • Drinking

• One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory. It comes when it pleases,and goes away without warning. Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure. Worry will never bring it back.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Time
  • Worry
  • Love Is

• There is no War on Terrorism; it is The Great Game speeded up. The difference is the rampant nature of the superpower, ensuring infinite dangers for us all.

  

  John Pilger
  • Up
  • Great
  • War

• Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

  

  William Cowper
  • Happiness
  • inspirational
  • Shows

• What I find appalling is the intrusive nature towards my extended family.

  

  Jeremy Corbyn
  • Family
  • Nature

• 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

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