Nature Quotes
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As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.
Ted Williams
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Texans are by nature independent people.
Joe Barton
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The cine-camera and television set allow us to perceive slow motion. The concept of anything other than real time had never occurred to anybody until the first slow-motion movies were shown, and this radically altered people's perceptions of nature.
J. G. Ballard
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I am not at their orders, but at those of Nature! My confreres doubtless have their reasons for working as you have said. But in thus doing violence to nature and treating human beings like puppets, they run the risk of producing lifeless and artificial work...
Auguste Rodin
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There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe.
Caitlin Thomas
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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.
Peter Garrett Midnight Oil
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Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.
Peter Davison
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I'm a nature bug.
Donna Karan
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Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts its primary focus on unnatural conditions rather than on those vast forces not of man's making that shape and channel the nature and direction of life.
Rachel Carson
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It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician scientific proofs.
Aristotle
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Many economists are great believers in the idea that everything in nature is competitive and that we should set up a society which is competitive to reflect that. Anyone who cannot keep up, well, too bad.
Frans de Waal
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Nature's message is clear: we can't keep doing what we're doing now.
Kevin Spacey
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The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.
Wendell Willkie
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You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.
Tom Stoppard
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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
Francisco Goya
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For me, nature is something you watch on the Discovery Channel, or on the evening news -- as you learn how much more of it's been savaged to make way for the Blackberry realm that is my home
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
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I must admit that I am not generous with weak people. It's not in my nature or in my personality. My parents were not generous with weak people, see?
Oriana Fallaci
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Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd's can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of the orb.
Charlotte Bronte
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To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.
David Hockney
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Now to the great artist, everything in nature has character.
Auguste Rodin
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There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.
Henry Ward Beecher
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I want to see and taste and experience it all, I am curious by nature. I would actually really love to go to New Zealand.
Shailene Woodley
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By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs - now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood of water; and again in the fullness of time an outburst of organic life.
John Muir