Nature Quotes

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.

...tell them that we have some good in us, too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That’s why we’ve got to make sure we pass it on.

Now I know what the atom looks like.

The flowers are Nature's jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty.

Nature has no reverence towards life. Nature treats life as though it were the most valueless thing in the world.... Nature does not act by purposes.

Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit.

Let nature be in your yard.

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.

All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.

Death is natural and necessary, but not just. It is a random force of nature; survival is equally accidental. Each loss is an occasion to remember that survival is a gift.

When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face

It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature.

Your nature is to keep quiet. You came from silence and you have to return to silence... you are dancing only for a little while you see... a little while you are dancing.

All information of a spiritual or personal nature will have to come from our father, who art in heaven, and I think he's in New York right now.

The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear.

It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.

We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.

it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things.

I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.

The ocean . . . cold and wild the surf, rushing in to overwhelm the beach, the wind, stinging my cheeks, enveloping me in total freedom.

Man's nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.

Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.

Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation.

Everything in nature is a puzzle until it finds its solution in man, who solves it in some way with God, and so completes the circle of creation.

[Self-defense is] justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the laws of society.

Life is like a field, where we must gather what we grow, weed or wheat... this is the law, we reap the crop we sow.

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

All gardening is landscape painting.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.

The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

Just as a son, to be a son of man, must be of the same nature and spirit of his father; so with the sons of God, and so it will be with all who are born of the spirit of God.

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.

Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?

We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.

Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions, that it is incredibly vast and interconnected with all other beings.

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.