Nature Quotes
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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coming away from the doctor's after a check-up Get interested is the advice, but in truth you are interested in less and less. It's Nature's way.
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Your nature is to keep quiet. You came from silence and you have to return to silence... you are dancing only for a little while you see... a little while you are dancing.
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The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.
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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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The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.
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I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile.
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If I'm going to be working out two hours a day, I may as well have a goal... and I'm pretty competitive by nature. A triathlon is a new fun thing.
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The Law is not in fault, but our evil and wicked nature; even as a heap of lime is still and quiet until water is poured on it, but then it begins to smoke and burn, not from the fault of the water, but from the nature of the lime, which will not endure it.
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Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
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I'd like to say let your kids go out and play. Then I'd say you're not going to do that are you? Make your kids go out and play.
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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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So that the one road for which we now need God's leadership most of all is a road God, in His own nature, has never walked. But suppose God became a man... He could surrender His will, suffer and die, because He was a man.
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Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?
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In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world tin.
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Nature got it right with the cranes. They have been around since the Eocene, which ended 34 million years ago.
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No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist.
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Nature is an unpleasing, stupid, lumpy, blowsy wench.
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Realism sets itself at work to consider characters and events which are apparently the most ordinary and uninteresting, in order to extract from these their full value and true meaning. It would apprehend in all particulars the connection between the familiar and the extraordinary, and the seen and unseen of human nature.
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I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
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Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.
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In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving. Nature does not often say 'See!' to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply 'Here!' to a body's cry of 'Where?' till the hide-and-seek has become an irksome outworn game.
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Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the nothing; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the infinite. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.
