Nature Quotes

When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.

In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.

I'm much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.

Although it's difficult, if not impossible, to put a dollar value on the numerous services nature provides, leaving them out of economic calculations means they are often ignored.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

Mother Nature is not sweet.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.

Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

I work with nature, although in completely new terms.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.