Nature Quotes
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The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as to make his work indistinguishable from nature itself.
Alastair Mackenzie
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Nature has granted to all to be happy, if we did but know how to use her benefits.
Claudius Claudianus
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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
Rudyard Kipling
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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.
Thomas A. Edison
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If you want to say how can we step into childhood and make it better for them, I would start at the activity level. I'd like to say let your kids go out and play.
C. Everett Koop
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Realize thy Simple Self, Embrace thy Original Nature.
Lao Tzu
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You have to understand the nature of light.
Conrad Hall
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To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
William Ellery Channing
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I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good.
James McAvoy
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There haven't been genetic studies on grit, but we often think that challenge is inherited but grit is learned. That's not what science says. Science says grit comes from both nature and nurture.
Angela Duckworth
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Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
Pierre Corneille
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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.
Baruch Spinoza
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Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature.
Margot Kidder
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Realize thy Simple Self, Embrace thy Original Nature.
Lao Tzu
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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.
Wilhelm Ostwald
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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.
H. W. L. Poonja
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The most insoluble problems are those which by their very nature can have no space within them for dreams.
Colleen McCullough
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My house and my garden are built as part of nature, not over it.
Peter Coyote
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When we're in our right minds, we are hopeful. Because the arc of the moral universe does bend toward justice, nature does bend toward healing, and the heart does bend toward love.
Marianne Williamson
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Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.
Emily Dickinson
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“Man and not nature initiates, but nature in large measure controls.”
Halford Mackinder
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Gender or skin color does not of itself determine the nature of a person's thinking.
Marianne Williamson
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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.
Max Beckmann
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I believe in anything it would be nature - trees, clouds, rain - the life cycles that begin and end, season after season. that makes sense to me - nature as God.
Ellen Wittlinger