Nature Quotes

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.

I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

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

The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.

You may make some mistakes-but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

No departure from the truth of nature shall be discovered by the closest scrutiny.

These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.

We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

The serendipitous nature of hypertext links is just brilliant for a curious mind. I love it.

Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.

You watched these people go through their lives and just had a feeling that they existed outside the usual laws of nature; that there was no other group so handsome, so engaged.

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.