Nature Quotes
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Nature is, and must be the fountain which alone is inexhaustible; and from which all excellencies must originally flow.
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What else is nature but God?
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Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat analogous to that of the blessed word 'evolution' in the late nineteenth.
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No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
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If we think systematically, we will stop asking, How much is nature worth? We will know that we are a piece of nature ourselves.
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Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma.
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Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature. John Kennedy had wit, and so did Lincoln, who also had abundant humor; Reagan was mostly humor.
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Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower; Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads.
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What makes us feel drawn to music is that our whole being is music: our mind and body, the nature in which we live, the nature which has made us, all that is beneath and around us, it is all music.
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Nature always levies her tribute.
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Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in.
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Now, as God the maker play'd he taught the game to Nature whom he created in his image; taught her the selfsame game which he played to her.
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Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.
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I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.
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As a so-called "civilized" people, and as members of a society in search of lasting peace in the world, we cannot remain callous to our responsibility toward nature and insensitive to the inherent rights of the animals.
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It's human nature when you first make your big fortune to want to show off a bit. I don't begrudge that whatsoever.
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Grace does not destroy nature, it perfects it.
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But when the nature of the constraint has changed, one would expect to see a major change in the way we operate all non-constraints.
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Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise - they are what they are.
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I look out this window and think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and the birds and everything else and I am part of it. I didn't ask to be put here. I've been lucky finding myself here.
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The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature.
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Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.
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"You’re a force of nature, Your Grace,” she said. “But so am I. So am I."
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Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
