Nature Quotes
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To produce good sculpture it is not necessary to copy the works of antiquity; it is necessary first of all to regard the works of nature, and to see in those of the classics only the method by which they have interpreted nature.
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Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.
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We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.
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You see, lots of the real people can't do it at all: they're such fools that they think style comes by nature to people in their position; and so they never learn. There's always something professional about doing a thing superlatively well.
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But Sasha who after all had no English blood in her but was from Russia where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden, and sentences often left unfinished from doubt as to how best to end them.
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Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to humanitarian values. Destruction of nature and nature's resources result from ignorance, greed and lack of respect for the earth's living things.
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Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Things have a way of moving to the left, and then they move back to the right before somebody finds themselves in the center. That seems to be the nature of the creative world. It's not stagnant. I don't get upset about it.
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The Government espouses the concept of sustainable economic development. Stable prosperity can be achieved throughout the world provided the environment is nutured and safeguarded. Protecting this balance of nature is therefore one of the great challenges of the late Twentieth Century.
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Obeying an order was the most important thing to me. It could be that is in the nature of the German.
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I just kept touring and touring until it became second nature to go onstage, perform, and sing.
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When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort of contact with the nature of the world than the sowing of seeds, the planting of cuttings, the transplanting of shrubs or the grafting of slips?
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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.
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The nature of constitutional delegations of power is that they entitle the empowered official to do certain things that other people can't do.
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Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
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My mother was the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. There are moments when I remember her beauty, unadorned, unposed, not in some artificial place like a set or a photo call but rather captured outdoors in nature, where she took my breath away. When those moments surface, I miss her the most.
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When we study history we obtain a more profound insight into human nature by instituting a comparison between the present and former states of society.
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Oh happy, (if his happiness he knows)The Countrey Swain! on whom kind Heav'n bestowsAt home all Riches that wise Nature needs;Whom the just Earth with easie plenty feeds.
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Nature does not have to insist.
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The wonders of nature are endless.
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Zen is influenced by Daoism, which is not so much a nature-religion in the animistic sense as a nature-philosophy in a cosmic sense.
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Nature, they say, doth dote,And cannot make a manSave on some worn-out plan,Repeating us by rote.
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And, as if nature were protecting man against his own ingenuity, the reproductive processes were affected for a time; men became sterile, women had miscarriages, menstruation stopped.
