Nature Quotes

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

The goal of physiological research is functional nature.

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.

Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.

The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach.

The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.

We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since then we've smoked it up and littered it and dumped too much in too many waters. I don't think it's our privilege to behave this way.

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

Homosexuality is against nature. Sexual expression is permitted only within marriage, between man and woman, male and female. Anything else is an abnormality and is against nature.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature.

As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.

For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy.

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals.

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

Duruing all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?