Nature Quotes

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

Habit is ten times nature.

The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.

In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.

I'm much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

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.