Nature Quotes
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
Octavio Paz
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By nature, I'm an awkward person; I'm a gangly introvert.
Andrew Hozier-Byrne
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I think I am a religious person just by nature. I think I sort of view everything through the lens of some inner undying thing in people that drives them to act as they do or to feel ashamed of not acting in some other way.
John Darnielle
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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
Mao Zedong
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
Wallace Stevens
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
Hannah Arendt
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
E. F. Schumacher
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My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.
Sam Yagan
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My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.
Sam Yagan
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We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.
Matthew Simpson
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He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.
Galileo Galilei
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The competitive nature of most mums and dads is astounding. The fear they instil in our promising but sensitive Johnny is utterly depressing. We need a parental cultural revolution.
Gary Lineker
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Schiller writes in a letter to Goethe, 17 December 1795 of a ‘poetic mood’. I think I know what he means, I think I am familiar with it myself. It is the mood of receptivity to nature and one in which one’s thoughts seem as vivid as nature itself.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, - through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.
Friedrich Schiller
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We need balance. We need to balance our inner life with our outer life. Nature is always sitting there waiting to help us, but we have to do the work. Nature is probably the greatest teacher that we'll ever have... the earth and nature.
Dave Davies The Kinks
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For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature.
Hans Jonas
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What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.
C. S. Lewis
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There are bugs and there are the pigeons and other predators, but you shouldn't be afraid of them, because this is how nature works.
Bette Midler
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I'm fine with Nature's way, as long as Nature keeps it out of *my* way.
Rachel Caine
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The nature of 'SNL' is that it's so in-the-moment.
Bill Hader
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I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.
Pat Conroy
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I love to talk about sports. I love sports; it's just something that's in my nature.
Genesis Rodriguez