Nature Quotes

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

The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

We're getting closer to our nature.

Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.

Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.

For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

The older view of the nature of heat was that it is a substance, very fine and imponderable indeed, but indestructible, and unchangeable in quantity, which is an essential fundamental property of all matter.

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

Due to the political nature of film, partisan film making, especially where the subject is close to the film makers hart, tend to be the norm, rather than the exception.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

We are acknowledging the close personal nature of our 10 years at war and the strong bonds of fidelity that Marines have for one another, especially for those fellow Marines who we have lost.

Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit.

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.

Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.

Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.