Nature Quotes

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature - the lameness, the scarred Byronic hero.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.

I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I'm not thinking about the camera and that it's second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now.

It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined.

I know I'm not known as method. By nature I'm not a brooder. What I continue to use is a mixture of the English school, which is traditionally outside-in, and the more American way of working from the inside out.

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

The confidence is there, the game is there, but physically you can't fight nature sometimes. You can't do much about it.

Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.

The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?

We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.

The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.

Custom is second nature.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent.

One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.