Nature Quotes

How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I think there's a supreme power behind all of this. I see it in nature.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Nature can do more than physicians.

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.

I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.

I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.

I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.

For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor.

Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.

It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature.

To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

True popular ballads are the spontaneous products of nature.

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.

Nature is perfect.

Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.