Nature Quotes
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To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
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Any person who has spent time outdoors actually doing something, such as hunting and fishing as opposed to standing there with a doobie in his mouth, knows nature is not intrinsically healthy.
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The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.
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Always lines, never forms. Where do they find these lines in Nature? Personally I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not, planes that advance and planes that recede, relief and depth. My eye never sees outlines or particular features or details... ...My brush should not see better than I do. Goya, in a recall of an overheard conversation
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All too willingly man sees himself as the centre of the universe, as something not belonging to the rest of nature but standing apart as a different and higher being. Many people cling to this error and remain deaf to the wisest command ever given by a sage, the famous 'Know thyself' inscribed in the temple of Delphi.
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Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.
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I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.
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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.
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To me, the most important thing is to tell a good story. If I can do that, I think that enlightenment, respect of nature, etc. follows.
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There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.
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A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.
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If you want to learn the true nature of a child you have to watch how she plays. If you want to learn the true nature of an adult you have to watch how she does her job.
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It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.
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There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it's great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it.
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I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind
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Strictly by the nature of 'Veep,' in any given moment, a lot can go wrong.
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Before the quantum theory appeared, the principle of the uniformity of nature - that like causes produce like effects - had been accepted as a universal and indisputable fact of science. As soon as the atomicity of radiation became established, this principle had to be discarded.
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Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
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There's alcohol in plant and tree.It must be Nature's planThat there should be in fair degreeSome alcohol in Man.
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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
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Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable.
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Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It's hard to learn when we are winning and on top of the world.
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Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.
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The idea of universal brotherhood is innate in the catholic nature of Chinese thought; it was the dominant concept of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, whom events have proved time and again to be not a visionary but one of the world's greatest realists.
