Nature Quotes

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.

It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say.

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s.

Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy

Nature is cruel but we don't have to be

Work is against human nature. The proof is that it makes us tired.

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

As women, we're nurturers by nature. We want to make sure everyone is happy. That's a good thing, but we also have to put ourselves on that happiness list.

Those who believe the Author of Nature to be also the Author of Scripture must expect to find in Scripture the same sorts of difficulties that they find in Nature.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.

I do NOT accept the ephemeral nature of this moment. I'm going to extend it FOREVER! Or at least I'm going to try.

Remember you belong to nature, not it to you.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence.

I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire.

Nature is interested in only two things--to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you superimpose on that, all the cultural input, is responsible for the boredom of man.

Lose yourself in nature and find peace

Community doesn't just create abundance - community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature, the human world might be transformed.

Our own true nature is Infinite Joy! Always happy, Always peaceful, Always free.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

The children and nature movement is fueled by this fundamental idea: the child in nature is an endangered species, and the health of children and the health of the Earth are inseparable.

Sometimes the whole world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful

It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?

Why are we here on earth? To create. It's in our nature.

I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am.

Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.

The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.

There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport.

I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them.

At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.

Not to sound too deep or weird, but I think that the times when you really appreciate surfing are the times you're really sort of becoming one with nature. Surfing's as raw of a sport as it gets.

In the real world there is no nature vs. nurture argument, only an infinitely complex and moment-by-moment interaction between genetic and environmental effects

If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.

Skateboarders are envied by people because they just glide so free. Any time something moves like water, they’ll make a dam. Every time something moves in nature, they want to stop it.

Cooperation for mutual benefit, a survival strategy very common in natural systems, is one that humanity needs to emulate.

Quantum computation is a distinctively new way of harnessing nature. It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.

If you find yourself worrying, go outside, take three breaths, address a tree and quietly say, 'Thank you.' If you can't find a tree, a dandelion will do... Nature is magic.

If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.

At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid.