Nature Quotes

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.

Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees.

The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature.

You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

The nature of the internet is that you don't know who is behind the screen.

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Culture means control over nature.

By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point.

If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.