Nature Quotes

The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

You can change the circumstances but you can never change man's inner nature.

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic slogan of 'higher, stronger, faster.'

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.

I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism.

Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.

I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.