Nature Quotes

By nature I'm not a brooder.

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.

I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.

And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

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.