Nature Quotes

Therefore, I reasoned that study of the cell cycle responsible for the reproduction of cells was important and might even be illuminating about the nature of life.

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.

Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law.

But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

Let your Medicine be something of the Nature of the Sign ascending.

I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

You can change the circumstances but you can never change man's inner nature.

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic slogan of 'higher, stronger, faster.'

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.

I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural.