Nature Quotes

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.

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.

Nature is the art of God.

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

I have agreed to lend my voice to Nature's Guard, an animated series which hopefully will go into production in the near future. The characters are all animals. My voice will be for a character named Longtail.

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature.

I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.