Nature Quotes

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph.

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.

We were raised without movies, theater or music. We had only nature, the hills, the trees. When I got on the set of 'Manon,' I wasn't star-struck because I didn't know what a star was.

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

I'm Greek, and we're conspiratorial by nature.

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.

I'm not a woman. I'm a force of nature.

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.

Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.

We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Nature's laws have to supersede man's law.

The development of a rational view of the nature of catalysis was thus absolutely dependent on the creation of the concept of the rate of chemical reaction.

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.