Nature Quotes

The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

I'm very rarely in the gym. My workouts are predominantly outside, in nature.

There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.

The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.

I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't?

The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.

Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement of nature is hostile, 'red in tooth and claw.' That came about because people misread Darwin's 'survival of the fittest.'

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature.

Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.

With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it.

I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have.

I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.

Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It's all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.