Nature Quotes
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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
Georg Brandes
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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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When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their existence as human beings. Their actions against Nature must lead to their own downfall.
Adolf Hitler
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The possible signs of a coming collapse are the same as the greatest strengths of Western civilization: democracy, capitalism, the generally peaceful linking of world economic systems, our amazing success in harnessing the powers of nature to the betterment of the human condition in health, subsistence, longevity. These are the hallmarks of our society - its most successful elements.
Arthur Demarest
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On some level nature can take care of itself, but it's not the nature we necessarily want to surround ourselves with.
Nancy Knowlton
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Nature, so far as in her lies, imitates God.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told what to do. I think it goes back to school. I like to do things I want to do and I really don't like doing what I don't want to do.
Andy Serkis
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We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils.
Thomas Carlyle
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Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know of no sculpture, painting or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of granite cliff and dome, of patina of light on rock and forest, and of the thunder and whispering of the falling, flowing waters. At first the colossal aspect may dominate; then we perceive and respond to the delicate and persuasive complex of nature.
Ansel Adams
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Nature’s like therapy, everybody writes about trees.
Cate Kennedy
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Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
James Anthony Froude
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O blissful poverty!
Nature, too partial! to thy lot assigns
Health, freedom, innocence, and downy peace,
Her real goods; and only mocks the great,
With empty pageantries!
Elijah Fenton
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We don't know nearly enough about the complexities of Nature. If we think we can eliminate natural ecosystems and substitute prosthetic devices, i.e. clean air or water with fusion energy - we are kidding ourselves.
E. O. Wilson
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Be empty. Be still. Just watch everything come and go. This is the way of Nature.
Lao Tzu
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The history of man proves that religion perverts man's concept of life and the universe, and has made him a cringing coward before the blind forces of nature.
Joseph Lewis
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. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.
Baruch Spinoza
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The horse has such a docile nature, that he would always rather do right the wrong, if he can only be taught to distinguish one from the other.
George W. Melville
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Secondly, man sins against nature when he goes against his generic nature, that is to say, his animal nature. Now, it is evident that, in accord with natural order, the union of the sexes among animals is ordered towards conception. From this it follows that every sexual intercourse that cannot lead to conception is opposed to man's animal nature.
Thomas Aquinas
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Let your Medicine be somthing of the Nature of the Sign ascending.
Nicholas Culpeper
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As I helped him up, I felt him shake all over, so I asked him to forgive me, without knowing what for, but that was my lot, asking forgiveness, I even asked forgiveness of myself for being what I was, what it was my nature to be.
Bohumil Hrabal
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The tulip and the butterfly
Appear in gayer coats than I:
Let me be dressed fine as I will,
Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
Isaac Watts
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A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.
J. G. Holland
