Nature Quotes
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What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars?
Pliny the Elder
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In design, Mother Nature is our best teacher.
Van Day Truex
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George W. Bush was president through some of the darkest days of our history and yet his optimism never waned. He is optimistic by nature, but he also understood the importance of always communicating a sense that things will get better.
Mark McKinnon
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Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.
C. S. Lewis
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Canadians have an inherent good nature, and they are used to being made fun of.
Cobie Smulders
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Nature is one. It is not divided into physics, chemistry, quantum mechanics.
Albert Szent-Györgyi
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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
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When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.
Tadao Ando
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Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
Lord Acton
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My parents never told me about Papa's lung cancer or the desperate nature of the operations he was about to undergo, which were a last-ditch effort to contain the spread of his cancer.
Beverly Sills
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What is divine is full of Providence. Even chance is not divorced from nature, from the inweaving and enfolding of things governed by Providence. Everything proceeds from it. (Hays translation)
Marcus Aurelius
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In nature nothing exists alone.
Rachel Carson
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Alan Chadwick's garden is a 'garden of the mind' as much as it is of the soil, and like all genuinely inspired creations it has the power to stir us to new dreams, to a new vision of what man and nature can do, together.
Page Smith
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Arts may ply fantastic anatomy but nature is always herself in her wildest moods of extravagence.
John Clare
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Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.
Jane Jacobs
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In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.
James E. Gunn
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I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.
Abby Wambach
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I just want people to recognize my father as an artist who was way ahead of his time. He was a genius. His life just burnt out quicker than it should have. And that is unfortunate, but what is more unfortunate is that everybody focuses on the nature of his death as opposed to the nature of his life, which was so much greater and more important.
Freddie Prinze, Jr.
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Learning an imposed method seemed not in my nature
Yehudi Menuhin
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I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
Plato
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Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.
Jane Smiley
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Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.
H. P. Lovecraft