Nature Quotes

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.

I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.

My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature.

Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.

The law in question asserts, that the quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.

People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature.

The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?