Nature Quotes

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.

All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.

There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate.

Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.

One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.

Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.

For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.

If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.

Your true nature doesn't come out. So the gods let you do what you want because free will would be compromised if they showed up at the White House saying, 'Take us to your leader.'

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.