Nature Quotes

Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

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

The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

'Grey's' is just a machine. I wasn't really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is.

It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest.

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

There are always, of course, job losses of a cyclical nature in a recession.

All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides.

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

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

Great art picks up where nature ends.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.

Talking up a storm about food is so easy for me, it's second nature.

We must return to nature and nature's god.

Generally, what people tend to underestimate is the cyborg nature of Groupon. We are a company that has the DNA of being both a technology company and a heavily operational company.

In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.

But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.