Nature Quotes

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.

I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality.

Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.

Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil.

If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

I guess they just took it for granted that that was what I was interested in and let nature take its course.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

When I'm off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It's a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that can be anything - going for a walk in nature, being in silence, burning incense.