Nature Quotes

• Whatever has value in our world now does not have value in itself, according to its nature - nature is always value-less, but has been given value at some time, as a present - and it was we who gave and bestowed it.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Time
  • World
  • Value

• Make your kids go out and play. Kids ought to grow up the way you and I grew up and we grew up fifty years apart or maybe more. But we did the same things. Now who's out playing in the afternoon? Nobody.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Growing Up

• Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Nature

• It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Nature
  • Human Brain

• My nature is happy. And all I can control is my response to input. If you come around me and tell me bad news all the time, I can say, "You know what? I don't want to hear it." If its just gossip, you know, I can choose not to hear it. And that, in effect, can control my mood.

  

  John Travolta
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Happy

• The primary purpose of the Legislature in establishing "Arbor Day," was to develop and stimulate in the children of the Commonwealth a love and reverence for Nature as revealed in trees and shrubs and flowers. In the language of the statute, "to encourage the planting, protection and preservation of trees and shrubs" was believed to be the most effectual way in which to lead our children to love Nature and reverence Nature's God, and to see the uses to which these natural objects may be put in making our school grounds more healthful and attractive.

  

  Andrew S. Draper
  • God
  • Children
  • Purpose

• If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.

  

  Frank Herbert
  • Nature

• I believe that the destructive nature of society that now threatens the existence of the entire human world has much to do with human intelligence. The way to overcome all human suffering-that also is through human intelligence.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Believe
  • Society

• Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.

  

  Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
  • Nature
  • Understood
  • Admired

• At the final day, the Savior will not ask about the nature of our callings. He will not inquire about our material possessions or fame. He will ask if we ministered to the sick, gave food and drink to the hungry, visited those in prison, or gave succor to the weak.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Nature
  • Food
  • Sick

• Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

  

  Philip Pullman
  • Nature

• I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.

  

  John Shirley
  • Nature
  • Empathy

• Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.

  

  Gene Stratton-Porter
  • Trusted
  • Silences
  • Sights

• There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.

  

  Evelyn Beatrice Hall
  • Nature
  • Goodness
  • Retiring

• Men are in error when they lament the flight of time, accusing it of being too swift, and not perceiving that it is sufficient as it passes; but good memory, with which nature has endowed us, causes things long past to seem present.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of remarkable Christian forbearance among men-were it not for a mawkish humanitarianism, coupled with imperfect digestive powers, we should devour our young, as Nature intended.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Christian

• I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother.

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Nature

• If I hear a really good song it's like, oh man, I want to write a song that good. But the urge to create mostly comes from nature, weather and I think it just effects me.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Write
  • Create
  • Good Song

• You come to us well tempered, my child, and it is not in my nature to be sorry for it. It is a well tempered blade that is the strongest.

  

  Robin LaFevers
  • Nature
  • Sorry

• The new media are not bridges between man and nature: they are nature. (p. 14)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Nature

• Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.

  

  Brian Ferneyhough
  • Nature
  • Success
  • Failure

• Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a pupil who listens to everything that the teacher chooses to say, but of an appointed judge who compels the witness to answer questions which he has himself formulated.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Character
  • Nature
  • Judge

• I'm sure the atmosphere at Tanglewood and the space there and nature - I think it absolutely fits Wagner's music.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Space

• There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.

  

  Adi Shankara
  • Nature
  • Happiness
  • Finitude

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