Nature Quotes

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.

You are one of the forces of nature.

Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.

I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature.

Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.

In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.

Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.

Although it's difficult, if not impossible, to put a dollar value on the numerous services nature provides, leaving them out of economic calculations means they are often ignored.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

Mother Nature is not sweet.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.

Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

I work with nature, although in completely new terms.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.

The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.