Nature Quotes

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

Nature abhors annihilation.

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer, the first thing I like to do is see what's on the minds of the people.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.

It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.

I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.

What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it?

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.

But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

And, as if nature were protecting man against his own ingenuity, the reproductive processes were affected for a time; men became sterile, women had miscarriages, menstruation stopped.