Nature Quotes

Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them.

It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm. Kind of like a Faustian thing, I think.

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

It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.

We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these drugs that they give you that will lead you to heart surgery and things of that nature.

Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.

The course of Nature is the art of God.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.

Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.

It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.