Nature Quotes
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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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In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.
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The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature.
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I don't like sewing machines. I don't understand how a needle with a thread going through the tip of it can interlock the thread by jamming itself into a little goddamn spool. It's contrary to nature and it irritates me.
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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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There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.
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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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I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.
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As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool.
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People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.
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As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame
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Have you ever noticed the perfection of nature? The seasons and how one changes into the next, the falling leaves, composting soil, rains, new seedlings, sunshine, growth, blossoms, etc. Grass grows, deer eats grass, lion eats deer, deer population is stabilized so there is grass for other animals; sunrise and sunset, boy and girl, winter and summer.
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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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The Bible of nature is the best damn Bible in the world. Its laws are perfect and grand, and all the prayers in the world can't change them. There is intelligence and law in this world, and there may be supreme intelligence and law, but so far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is all a damned fake.
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Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.
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All of nature is God's art.
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It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.
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Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.
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There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we are almost equally sensitive, the ill-breeding that comes from want of consideration for others.
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Nature is always wise in every part.
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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
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You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature.
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Nature may reach the same result in many ways.
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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.
