Nature Quotes

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Seems you can't outsmart Mother Nature.

It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.

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

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

Kids are truthful by nature.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature.