Nature Quotes
- Page 22It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
Christopher Morley
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
Christopher Dawson
I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.
Thomas Sydenham
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.
Omar Bongo
As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
Albrecht Durer
Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
Barnett Newman
It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
John Ruskin
The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.
Louis Agassiz
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
Margaret Mead
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
Henry David Thoreau
Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.
Francis Wright
I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it.
Clyde Tombaugh
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
Camille Paglia
The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
William Irwin Thompson
Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.
Samuel Alexander
For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
Pam Brown
Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature.
Margot Kidder
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
George MacDonald