Nature Quotes

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.

So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.

Road testing the effects of regulation on European business must become second nature to the European Union.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home.

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

It was he who impressed, time and again, the necessity of singing as nature intended, and - I remember - he constantly warned, don't let the public know that you work. So I went slowly. I never forced the voice.

I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.