Nature Quotes

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

The beauty of this country and what people participate in is the competitive nature that we allow to exist and the fact is that we are better because we have great competitors.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.

Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.

If Senator Kerry understands the nature of this threat and the need to take on terror, then he should immediately repudiate these troubling comments, and stop all efforts on behalf of his surrogates to blame America for these attacks.

The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look, The fields his study, Nature was his book.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.

To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world.

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.

Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

Traditional songwriting, to us, is where the experimental nature comes in. We're all involved with so much outside activity with really hardcore, experimental music-making.

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.