Nature Quotes
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...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.
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Culture means control over nature.
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When I think about the books I've written, it probably takes 150,000-200,000 words to get a 50,000 page book. Highlighting something and hitting Cmd-X is second nature.
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The development of a rational view of the nature of catalysis was thus absolutely dependent on the creation of the concept of the rate of chemical reaction.
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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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Man has discovered in nature the wonderful notion of that all-mighty being whose law he worships. Fundamentally in everyone there is the feeling for this all-mighty, which we call god (that is to say, the dominion of natural laws throughout the whole universe).
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I am, as you know, a fan of nature, said Reginald. And yet, nature doesn't find ways to do anything. Nature has no opinion, no agenda. Nature provides a playing field, a not particularly level one, on which we compete with all creatures great and small.
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It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.
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It turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.
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We are forever asking Nature whether it has stopped beating its wife.
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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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Nature's old felicities.
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How well does your experience of the sacred in nature enable you to cope more effectively with the problems of mankind when you come back to the city?
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Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.
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The deep of night is crept upon our talk, And Nature must obey necessity.
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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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If love is exiled from cities, their good nature becomes an evil nature.
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No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say that the shock can leave the faith in the Invisible Goodness unshaken. With the sinking of high human trust, the dignity of life sinks too; we cease to believe in our own better self, since that also is part of the common nature which is degraded in our thought; and all the finer impulses of the soul are dulled.
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My work is about the underbelly of the beauty of nature - and the dark side of nature is its indifference. Nature isn't friendly, nor is it unfriendly - it's the perfect embodiment of the Other.
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All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature.
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The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
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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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Rising inequality is not a law of nature - it's not even a law of economics. It is a consequence of political and economic arrangements, and those arrangements can be changed.
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The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.
