Nature Quotes

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.

Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s.

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.

Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

It is my nature to thin where others read.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.

This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.

To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.

I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.

Art will never be able to exist without nature.

The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States.

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.

My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.