Nature Quotes
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When man violates man's laws, we send him to jail and point the finger of scorn at him. When he violates nature's laws, we send him to a hospital, give him flowers, and feel sorry for him.
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Runners, by nature, are intentional people and normally pretty light on our feet.
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How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally.
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I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.
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Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
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Your suffering like your fate is without motive. To suffer, truly to suffer, is to accept the invasion of ills without the excuse of causality, as a favor of demented nature, as a negative miracle...
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Sade has barely made a dent on American academic consciousness. It is his violence far more than his sex which is so hard for liberals to accept. For Sade, sex is violence. Violence is the authentic spirit of mother nature.
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Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
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I told myself, 'When I grow up, I want to make pictures that can inspire and nourish people.' Immediately, when I was 10, I started photographing nature. I built a darkroom. My first really good darkroom, not just down in the cellar, was when I was 14.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring.
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We are not by nature cruel.
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The neighborhood I grew up in had this fence that surrounds the watershed. And if you go on the other side of that fence, there's nothing until the North Pole and down to Siberia. It's the absolute cutoff point between man and nature.
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We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.
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'You're still the same girl. What people do doesn't change their nature.'She shook her head.… 'What they do is their nature,' she said.
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The world is so unhappy because it is ignorant of the true Self. Man's real nature is happiness. Happiness is inborn in the true Self. Man's search for happiness is an unconscious search for his true Self. The true Self is imperishable; therefore, when a man finds it, he finds a happiness which does not come to an end.
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Nature conceals her mystery by her essential grandeur.
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I'm a nature girl. I grew up in Colorado and was always outside. I still am, even when I'm in the city.
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Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.
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Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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'Hasn’t all this taught you anything?' Annette asked Gabriel Baines as they waited for the simulacrum’s return and report.'Like what?''That there is no perfect defense. There is no protection. Being alive means being exposed; it’s the nature of life to be hazardous-it’s the stuff of living.
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I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
