Nature Quotes

I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature.

None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.

An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.

The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.

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

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

Nature is regulating our climate for free. Mother Nature, she's been doing that for free, for a long, long time. Now do you really want to get in there and do geo-engineering and all this kind of stuff?

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.