Nature Quotes
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It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.
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Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me – the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love – He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us – nature did it all – not the gods of the religions.
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The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.
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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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I really loved crunk. I loved the extreme nature of it, how repetitious it was, and how these basic, angry chants would just be repeated over and over again.
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The imagination is both interpretative and creative in nature.
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Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Relying on the face might be human nature - even babies prefer to look at attractive people. But, of course, judging someone based on the geometry of his features is, from a moral and legal standpoint, no better than judging him based on the color of his skin.
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Nature is accustomed to hide itself.
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Deformed persons are commonly even with nature; for as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by nature; being for the most part (as the Scripture saith) void of natural affection; and so they have their revenge of nature.
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To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
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Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.
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In visualizing, or making a mental picture you are not endeavoring to change the laws of nature. You are fulfilling them.
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[Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and bad ones it ceases to be science and becomes a mere nuisance, like theology.
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Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair?
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Belief in non–violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.
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Let me earnestly recommend...one studio which you may freely enter and receive in liberal measure the most sure and safe instruction...the Studio of Nature.
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Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.
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I try to be as honest as I possibly can about the contradictions within my own heart and thereby get to something 'true' and revealing and important about contemporary American culture and human nature.
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Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
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By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across - each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip - is a coffee bean that will be crushed, ground up, mixed with a touch of cardamom, sometimes a tiny pinch of salt, boiled thrice with sugar, and served as a piping-hot tale.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
