Nature Quotes

Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

Christianity is in its nature revolutionary.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.

Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.