Nature Quotes
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Until you are master over the earth and air and water and fire in yourself, how can you be master of the elements of Nature?
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As the husband is the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, As the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.
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According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love.
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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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Everything is natural and nature is the whole of everything of which I am apart of and so are you.
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One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it.
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I try to work all over the canvas at once, because I feel that the forces of nature are unpredictable.
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Nature is a numbers game. We need all the support we can get as our immune systems and health are under assault from pollution, stress, contaminated food and age-related diseases as our lifespans increase.
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American business men must learn human nature to the point of accepting as necessary the Rabble Rouser of the Right. . . . To get fast action somebody must stir millions to genuine anger over conditions which are adversely affecting their lives.
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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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If a starving bear ate my family, even though he may have had no wicked intentions, even though he was just being a bear, his nature has made him a menace.
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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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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.
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. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.
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Again, if the world is destroyed, it must needs either be destroyed according to nature or against nature. Against nature is impossible, for that which is against nature is not stronger than nature. If according to nature, there must be another nature which changes the nature of the world: which does not appear.
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Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.
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Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.
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By nature, I’m rather passive so it’s important for me to appear confident on stage. I was very nervous.
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Nature has made nothing in vain.
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As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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Because what is the face, what finally, is the skin over the flesh, a cover, a disguise, rouge for the insupportable horror of our living nature.
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I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.
