Nature Quotes

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do.

With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.

By nature I am not tough, believe it or not.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Because the quality of living with nature and allowing it to manifest itself is different than the quality of living in a city, especially a dense city.

Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature.

For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

I am deeply concerned that, without peace and a two-state solution, the Jewish and democratic nature of Israel is in danger. That's why I have opposed Israel's settlement policy since 1973, and that's why I have favored a two-state solution since 1967.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

Envy is human nature.

The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.

Nature surrounds us, from parks and backyards to streets and alleyways. Next time you go out for a walk, tread gently and remember that we are both inhabitants and stewards of nature in our neighbourhoods.