Nature Quotes
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In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.
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Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
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Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
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I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.
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I'm a bit of a loner, you know? I'm more quiet by nature. And coming from, you know, hillbilly country, I'm probably more reserved.
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Runners, by nature, are intentional people and normally pretty light on our feet.
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The neighborhood I grew up in had this fence that surrounds the watershed. And if you go on the other side of that fence, there's nothing until the North Pole and down to Siberia. It's the absolute cutoff point between man and nature.
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The general notions about human understanding...which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar, wholly unheard of, or new. Even in our own culture, they have a history, and in Buddhist and Hindu thought a more considerable and central place. What we shall find is an exemplification, an encouragement, and a refinement of old wisdom.
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Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
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Listen," he said. "If you was a fish, Mother Nature'd take care of you, wouldn't she? Right? You don't think them fish just die when it gets to be winter, do ya?" No, but--" You're goddam right they don't
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One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.
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Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
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Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
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Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
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Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny.
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Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.
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Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
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The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
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How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally.
