Nature Quotes
-
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
Baruch Spinoza
-
All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things.
Victor Cousin
-
Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
Johann Georg Hamann
-
Family, nature and health all go together.
Olivia Newton-John
-
All of us introverts aspire to be more outgoing, but it's not in our nature. When I was nearly 50, I discovered that the best thing to do was to tell everyone I worked with that I'm just shy. People are not mind readers - you need to let them know.
Douglas Conant
-
I'm continually inspired by nature, and the rainbow is one of nature's greatest optical phenomenons. The sighting of a rainbow never fails to bring a smile to people's faces. They signify optimism and positivity: with them comes the sunshine after the rain.
Matthew Williamson
-
The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.
Vera Farmiga
-
What is excellence? It is about going a little beyond what we expect from ourselves. Part of the need for excellence is imposed on us externally by our customers. Our competition keeps us on our toes, especially when it is global in nature.
Azim Premji
-
I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.
Garry Shandling
-
There's alcohol in plant and tree.It must be Nature's planThat there should be in fair degreeSome alcohol in Man.
A. P. Herbert
-
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
-
Love is the only cause of happiness. Its nature is all-pervasive like space. Love is the sunlight of the mind
Garchen Rinpoche
-
If you have a lot of nature in your city, it becomes a more enjoyable place. That's my own feeling about it.
Stone Gossard Pearl Jam
-
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
Marquis de Sade
-
At the end of the day, I think my story is, we need black officers because African-Americans need a fair shot at good jobs in this country, but we cannot expect them and should not expect them to change the nature of policing.
James Forman, Jr.
-
I'm not one of those who can listen to music and write. I need the door closed. Windows shut. Facing the wall. No birds tweeting, views of nature, and so forth.
James McBride
-
Of everything I have seen, it's you I want to go on seeing: of everything I've touched, it's your flesh I want to go on touching. I love your orange laughter. I am moved by the sight of you sleeping. What am I to do, love, loved one? I don't know how others love or how people loved in the past. I live, watching you, loving you. Being in love is my nature.
Pablo Neruda
-
Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together in a single imaginery being circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.
Francisco Goya
-
I believe that art should sanctify nature.
Maurice Denis
-
Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
Calvin Coolidge
-
Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business.
J. Michael Straczynski
-
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
William Cowper
-
I like, very much, nature. Since I'm always together with people, I like to retreat.
Klaus Schwab
-
The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.
Olivia Thirlby