Nature Quotes

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.

Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature.

I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's comforting. It's escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it's just part of human nature to pretend.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

But we ought to consider the natural form and shape of a horse, that we may work him according to nature.

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

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

We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.

Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

Christianity is in its nature revolutionary.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.