Nature Quotes

It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

Habit is ten times nature.

The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.

In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.

I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

In the end, we are part of this region, and we are affected by its developments. What we may do or not do in the future depends on the nature of what happens here in the region.

That's human nature - the ups and downs.

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.