Nature Quotes

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.

I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.

People must help one another; it is nature's law.

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Seems you can't outsmart Mother Nature.

It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.

Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

Kids are truthful by nature.

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.

You are one of the forces of nature.

Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.

I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature.