Nature Quotes

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature.

I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

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

The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

We're getting closer to our nature.

Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.

Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.

For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

The older view of the nature of heat was that it is a substance, very fine and imponderable indeed, but indestructible, and unchangeable in quantity, which is an essential fundamental property of all matter.

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

Due to the political nature of film, partisan film making, especially where the subject is close to the film makers hart, tend to be the norm, rather than the exception.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

We are acknowledging the close personal nature of our 10 years at war and the strong bonds of fidelity that Marines have for one another, especially for those fellow Marines who we have lost.

Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.