Nature Quotes

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.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.

I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

In the end, we are part of this region, and we are affected by its developments. What we may do or not do in the future depends on the nature of what happens here in the region.

That's human nature - the ups and downs.

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.

He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.

String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.