Nature Quotes
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Resources are not taken from nature, but created from nature.
Alex Epstein
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I think for me to do a traditional sitting meditation I would really have to spend a couple weeks working at it. The only way I know how to efficiently, effectively meditate is by walking in nature.
Brett Dennen
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Unless you see yourself standing there with the shrieking crowd, full of hostility and hatred for the holy and innocent Lamb of God, you don’t really understand the nature and depth of your sin or the necessity of the cross.
C. J. Mahaney
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Nothing is of a permanent nature.
Mahatma Gandhi
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To love you is her nature. But hers is a love from which no good may come. And your desire for her will lead only to cold, dark places.
Ari Berk
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The nature of any human being, certainly anyone on Wall Street, is 'the better deal you give the customer, the worse deal it is for you'.
Bernard Madoff
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Motherly love - putting the care of children before every other consideration - is the ultimate intelligence of nature.
Marianne Williamson
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Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
Seneca the Younger
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I humbly believe our life is to learn our nothingness and His being everything; when we agree with Him that we are nothing and not astonished at our evil nature breaking forth, when we are willing for the last to be first, when we are willing to be the least in Heaven that every one we know should be higher than ourselves, then, I think, our lesson is learnt. If we are annoyed at any disparaging remark or conduct of our fellows, it is because we are not yet fully aware of our being nothing.
Charles George Gordon
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The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
Rachel Carson
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That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.
Blaise Pascal
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There is nothing in the world that does not speak to us. Everything and everybody reveals its own nature, character and secrets continuously. The more open our inner senses, the more we understand the voice of everything.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.
John Ruskin
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Being constantly surprised about what nature can create, that inspires me beyond belief.
Benjamin Stone
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One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
William Wordsworth
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
Tacitus
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To every one Nature appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Single life should be experimental in nature and open to accidents. Some accidents are happy ones.
Barbara Holland
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The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.
Paul de Man
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Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.
Seth Godin
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There is nothing that Nature seems to have inclined us to as much as society.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response, the communal nature of the audience is like having five hundred people read your novel and respond to it at the same time. I find that thrilling.
August Wilson
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The great question, whether man is of nature or above her.
George Perkins Marsh
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Nature has gifted this rich biological diversity to us. We will not allow it to become the monopoly of a handful of corporations. We will keep it as the basis of our wealth and our sustenance.
Vandana Shiva