Nature Quotes

• I'm a pessimist by nature, so it's always the worst things that come to mind first whenever you make a decision or have a decision to make.

  

  Domhnall Gleeson
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Decision

• Nature hates calculators.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Hates

• I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Sometimes
  • Politics
  • Anonymous

• There is no single theory that is used in economics that considers the finite nature of resources. It's shocking.

  

  Jeremy Grantham
  • Nature
  • Single

• I've always had an addictive nature.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Addictive

• An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Heaven

• Part of our human nature is finding new ways of being.

  

  Bozoma Saint John
  • Nature

• You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • True
  • Want
  • Alone

• I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.

  

  Barbara Block
  • Nature
  • Parents
  • Me

• Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Life
  • School
  • Art

• Many of Nature's finest lessons are to be found in her storms, and if careful to keep in right relations with them, we may go safely abroad with them, rejoicing in the grandeur and beauty of their works and ways.

  

  John Muir
  • May
  • Nature

• The body cannot produce enzymes in perfect combinations to metabolize your foods as completely as the food enzymes created by nature do. This results in partially digested fats, proteins, and starches that can clog your body's intestinal tract and arteries.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • Nature
  • Food
  • Perfect

• The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Truth
  • Earth
  • Control

• It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Nature
  • Rebel
  • Human Nature

• By nature I'm sort of an introvert.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Nature
  • Sort
  • Introvert

• What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?

  

  Wade Davis
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Science

• It's the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you're able to be tough on them, which a lot of us are, or you get in bed with them, and some people do.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • People
  • Nature
  • Journalism

• Management did not emanate from nature. Management is not a tree: it's a television set. Somebody invented it. It doesn't mean it's going to work forever. Management is great. Traditional notions of management are great if you want compliance. But if you want engagement, self-direction works better.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Work
  • Great
  • Forever

• There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • World
  • Small

• It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man.

  

  Confucius
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Dominance

• 'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Live
  • Society

• I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I like to get in that truck and go up in the hills near where I live, in Vegas, and take my camera. That, to me, is Heaven, being out in nature, taking pictures of the wildlife.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Live
  • Nice

• The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity. (15)

  

  Epicurus
  • Nature

• You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Military
  • Horse
  • Land

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