Nature Quotes

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do.

With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.

By nature I am not tough, believe it or not.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Because the quality of living with nature and allowing it to manifest itself is different than the quality of living in a city, especially a dense city.

Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.

God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

For greed all nature is too little.

Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

I think it bespeaks a generous nature, a man who can cook.

God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.

There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.