Nature Quotes

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Denis Diderot
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

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
Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.

William Cullen Bryant
- Sky
- Teaching
- Lists
I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be.

Ricky Martin
- World
- Children
- Nature
The nature of Ebola is that health-care workers are predominantly affected because of the way that it is spread.

Kent Brantly
- Nature
- Health
Human nature is governed by general self-interest and affected by genetic predisposition, which implies that there are likely to be limits to our moral sensitivities.

Nayef Al-Rodhan
- Nature
- Moral
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