Nature Quotes

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.

The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.

While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

Nature is never finished.

You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else.

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.