Nature Quotes

Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.

The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.

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

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

Nature is regulating our climate for free. Mother Nature, she's been doing that for free, for a long, long time. Now do you really want to get in there and do geo-engineering and all this kind of stuff?

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Study nature, not books.

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature.

If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it.