Nature Quotes
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Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is not novel... We find it in the delightful myth of Antaeus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among the subtle speculations of one of your splendid... Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic - and this we know it is, for certain - then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.
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Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.
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Man is nature as much as the trees.
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Novembers days are thirty: Novembers earth is dirty, Those thirty days, from first to last; And the prettiest things on ground are the paths.... Few care for the mixture of earth and water, Twig, leaf, flint, thorn, Straw, feather, all that men scorn, Pounded up and sodden by flood, Condemned as mud.
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Survival of the fittest led to "nature red in tooth and claw" and this is not sufficiently wishy-washy for modern scientists.
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We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in ourselves.
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'Real Housewives of New Jersey' has taught me more about the nature of a vacuum in space than any of the demonstrations in my high school AP physics textbook.
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Nature is actually unnatural.
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My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest.
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Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
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The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.
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Appetite for food and sex is nature.
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A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.
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It's human nature to take the easy route and leap at storage methods that promise quick and convenient ways to remove visible clutter. Putting things away creates the illusion that the clutter problem has been solved. But sooner or later, all the storage units are full, and the room once again overflows with things.
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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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He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.
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Technology changes all the time; human nature hardly ever.
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Having said that, my absorption in nature, its healing powers, and omnipresence in ourselves and the world that surrounds us is, in itself, a form of ultimate worship.
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All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching.
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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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There is nothing in nature quite so joyful as the very young and silly lamb - odd that it should develop into that dull and sober animal the sheep.
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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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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
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I grew up in beautiful Carmel, California, and I have extremely sweet parents that always loved nature and animals. They instilled such an appreciation for beauty and kindness that it was inherent.
