Nature Quotes

• The more you consume, the more insecure you are. It's the nature of the world.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • World
  • Nature
  • You

• This is sports. In sports, you win and you lose. That's the nature of sports. You can't get away from that part of it. And if you get too hung up on the losing part, then you miss the boat. The competition part, a game like that, is why you play sports. That is as good as it gets.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • Up
  • Good
  • Why

• No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Nature

• Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

  

  Bernard de Mandeville
  • Good
  • May
  • Bad

• Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Eyes
  • Wisdom

• Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Writing
  • Human
  • Literature

• The very name 'Manson' has become a metaphor for evil... He has come to represent the dark and malignant side of humanity, and for whatever reason, there is a side of human nature that is fascinated with ultimate evil.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Evil
  • Dark
  • Humanity

• In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • People
  • Japanese
  • Politeness

• I have seen Chinamen abused and maltreated in all the mean, cowardly ways possible to the invention of a degraded nature, but I never saw a policeman interfere in the matter and I never saw a Chinaman righted in a court of justice for wrongs thus done him.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Done
  • Nature
  • Justice

• I'm definitely not satisfied about my career. I don't know how you can be, it's the very nature of things.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Nature
  • Career
  • Know

• Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in their pregnant causes mixed/ Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,/ Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain/ His dark materials to create more worlds,--/ Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend/ Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,/ Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith/ He had to cross.

  

  John Milton
  • WIld
  • Abyss
  • Womb

• Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges - challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation.

  

  Boris Yeltsin
  • Character
  • Nature

• I weirdly feel very natural, in the physicality that comes my way, whether it's guns, cars or whatever. For some reason, it's second nature to me.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Way
  • Reason
  • Guns

• There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.

  

  Charles Eastman
  • Nature

• I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Life
  • God
  • Earth

• I would say that in my scientific and philosophical work, my main concern has been with understanding the nature of reality in general and of consciousness in particular as a coherent whole, which is never static or complete but which is an unending process of movement and unfoldment...

  

  David Bohm
  • Work
  • Reality
  • Understanding

• Since I was very young I've been fascinated with nature and I actually wanted to be a marine biologist when I was very young. That was a great passion of mine. So I suppose in the off season when I'm not making movies, I became more and more active as an environmentalist trying to be more vocal about issues that I felt were important.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Great
  • Important
  • Trying

• The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Life
  • Nature

• The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Nature
  • Mirror
  • Human Understanding

• Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Good
  • Question
  • Evil

• The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, . . . when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man . . . . It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons, and that in turning them against the insects it has also turned them against the earth.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Science
  • Earth
  • Control

• In order to actually have a touchscreen in front of me and somehow still be connected to nature, I needed to be able to incorporate natural elements into the song structures. Because that's always been my song-writing accompaniment: nature.

  

  Bjork
  • Writing
  • Nature
  • Song

• The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Music
  • Strong
  • Mysterious

• Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.

  

  Charlotte Lennox
  • May
  • Changes
  • Custom

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