Nature Quotes

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Seems you can't outsmart Mother Nature.

It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.

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

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

Kids are truthful by nature.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature.

Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in ming that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow.

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.