Nature Quotes
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Being in nature actually evokes awe in people. And it's a chemical reaction.
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Create form out of the nature of the task with the means of our time. This is our work.
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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.
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I spend as much time as I can sketching from nature, Dartmoor contains such a rich variety of landscape, as many boulders, foaming rivers and twisted trees as my heart could ever desire. . . . When I look into a river, I feel I could spend a whole lifetime just painting that river.
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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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There are two places where I can completely relax: in nature and by the piano.
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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
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Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.
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So much of 'Mudbound' is about man's relationship to the land and to the elements. It's about the desire for control and how powerless we are against nature. We always knew we would shoot widescreen as a means to isolate a body in the frame and to highlight our own insignificance.
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Landing on his feet was nothing new to Caleb. He did not believe in luck, he believed in the law of nature. Animals did not rely on luck. They lived and died by their instincts.
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Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.
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Man can sin against nature in two ways. First, when he sins against his specific rational nature, acting contrary to reason. In this sense, we can say that every sin is a sin against man's nature, because it is against man's right reason.
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A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.
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Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window.
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Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.
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I believe that evolution is a true account of nature, but I think we should try to escape it or transcend it in our society.
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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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The nature of the mind is such that if certain mental qualities are developed on a sound basis, they not only remain, but they also increase. In fact, once properly developed, the mind's good qualities eventually increase indefinitely. Therefore spiritual practice brings us long-term happiness and inner strength.
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It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.
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Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.
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Nietzsche attributes to himself an extremely vivid and sensitive instinct of cleanliness. At the first contact the filth lying at the base of another’s nature is revealed to him. The unclean are therefore ill at ease hi his presence
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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It is impossible not to recognise the Long March as one of the great triumphs of men against odds and men against nature. While the Red Army was unquestionably in forced retreat, its toughened veterans reached their planned objective with moral and political will as strong as ever... Their conviction had helped turn what might have been a terrible defeat into an arrival in triumph.
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Magic and religion are ultimately experiential in nature and should be treated as such.
