Nature Quotes

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me.

The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will only suffocate growth within the small business sector of our economy.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.

I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.

Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.