Nature Quotes

We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.

Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity.

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.

I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.

To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals and us.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.

For the keynote of the law of Karma is equilibrium, and nature is always working to restore that equilibrium whenever through man's acts it is disturbed.

You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature.

There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.

I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain.

The Book of Job is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of nature. Leviathan is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of the state.

If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.

Nature is surely the glorified face of God. See the beauty about you and ... see the manifestation of the infinite Mind.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly

We will move to a low-carbon world because nature will force us, or because policy will guide us. If we wait until nature forces us, the cost will be astronomical.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.

Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.

It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man.

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.

Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream

Giving and receiving pleasure is the nature of the cosmos, the inner nature of reality.

Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.

If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?

Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.

To be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which he is only an infinitesimal part and nurture it and love it, if he is to live.

Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.

In our own selves sometimes we don't feel right in this body. I think it's because our original nature is eternally free

Look at mother nature on the run in the 1970's.

All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair The bees are stirring, birds are on the wing, And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of spring.

My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things can survive.

To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.

In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we use humans to serve nature's interest?'

We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature.

Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.

The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.

A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.

If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

It is a pleasure to a real lover of Nature to give winter all the glory he can, for summer will make its own way, and speak its own praises.

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity.

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscape.