Nature Quotes

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

All art is but imitation of nature.

Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.

Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code.

I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Hidden nature is secret God.

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.

By nature I'm not a brooder.

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.

I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.

And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.