Nature Quotes

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

Healing with the clean, pure, beautiful agents of nature is surely the one method of all which appeals to most of us

Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe.

Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option...they will become a necessity.

For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me.

Love of man for woman--love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.

Water is being depleted many, many times faster than nature can replenish it.

Fish cannot drown in water. Birds cannot sink in air. This has God given to all creatures, to foster and seek their own nature. How then can I withstand mine?

Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part.

To change the world is not your mission. To change yourself is not your duty. To awaken to your true nature is your opportunity.

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life-happiness, freedom and peace of mind-are always attained by giving them to someone else.

When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature.

Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.

The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

The cat is nature's masterpiece.

If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how people were depicted inside nature, not outside it. It was a kind of dream time. That's what I'm exploring.

We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.

The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.

If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.

I know I can be diva-ish sometimes, but I have to be in control. The nature of my life, the nature of what I do, is divadom, it really is.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated

There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature.

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

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

Nature is visible Spirit; Spirit is invisible Nature.

Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil.

In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.

The universe corresponds to the nature of your song.

We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.

The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water

When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.