Nature Quotes

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in ming that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow.

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people.