Nature Quotes

Natural gas is hemispheric; I like to call it hemispheric in nature, because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

It is not what you think should be, but what is, that is interesting. When you have the expectation that something should be such and such a way, you will never learn what your nature wants.

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.

"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences.

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

In arranging the bodies in order of their electrical nature, there is formed an electro-chemical system which, in my opinion, is more fit than any other to give an idea of chemistry.

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.

That part of his body was simply uncontrollable, apparently functioning in accordance to a single law of nature: She existed--he got a hard-on.

Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.

The solution to a problem changes the nature of the problem.

Within the various acts of the ecodrama should be included scenes in which men's and women's roles come to center stage and scenes in which Nature 'herself' is an actress.

The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation.

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame

I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.

Wildlife is something which man cannot construct. Once it is gone, it is gone forever. Man can rebuild a pyramid, but he can't rebuild ecology, or a giraffe.

Dogs are not people dressed up in fur coats, and to deny them their nature is to do them great harm.

If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.

Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization I'm always appalled by 'me, me, me.'

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

We have to shift our attitude of ownership of nature to relationship with nature. The moment you change from ownership to relationship, you create a sense of the sacred.

The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.

Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.

Nature never writes a blind hand.

Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.

When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

Man is not above nature, but in nature.

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.

I am drawn to the wild not because it is wild but because it is sensible, logical, ordered, stable, resilient. Wild nature is everything we're struggling to regain.

Nature does not proceed by leaps.

We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in ourselves.

I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.

Christ's mission is to release the divine into our conscious knowing. He awakens the impulse in humanity to rise above his lower nature and be aware of his higher nature that dwells within.

Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature.

Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills.

most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth or power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

In order to create a little bit of confidence, start cooking with pasta. Pasta is phenomenal. Once you've cooked pasta properly for the first time it becomes second nature.

Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans; High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free.