Nature Quotes
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The species and the genus are always the work of nature; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.
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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact. His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity.
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Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency.
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Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.
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I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
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Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.
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Angels are spirits, but it is not because they are spirits that they are angels. They become angels when they are sent. For the name angel refers to their office, not their nature. You ask the name of this nature, it is spirit; you ask its office, it is that of an Angel, which is a messenger.
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Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.
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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don't know whether or not we know that we don't know it.
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To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.
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Learn by heart the forms to be found in nature, so that you can use them like the notes in a musical composition. That is what these forms are for. Nature is a marvelous chaos, and it is our job and our duty to bring order into that chaos and – to perfect it.
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When it comes to death, nature is much more cruel to predators than predators are to their own prey.
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The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature.
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I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me
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Nature did all things well.
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Sherlock is a portrait of humanity - he takes nature's gift of thought and runs with it, bringing along all the human struggles, fears, and insecurities. He's the hero we could see ourselves being.
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As an improviser, my nature is to take a theme and constantly rework it.
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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
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The benefit of writing a collection - as opposed to a novel - is that I'm able to have some version of the war in each story without having to comment on its all-encompassing nature. Turn the page and here are new characters and new situations, but the war remains... Isn't that how life has been for us for over a decade?
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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.
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Justice is but the distributing to everything according to the requirements of its nature.
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I am not, by nature, an explorer or an adventurer.
