Nature Quotes
Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.
In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.
Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.
Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love.
Wall Street never changes, the pockets change, the suckers change, the stocks change, but Wall Street never changes, because human nature never changes.
The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception.
I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.
Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.
Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there's still a part of us who wants to believe in an alternative reality, where we can defy the laws of nature.
Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.
If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.
I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.
A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.
In visualizing, or making a mental picture you are not endeavoring to change the laws of nature. You are fulfilling them.
Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.
Since the beginning of time mankind has used music and dance to commune with the Spirit of Nature and the Spirit of the Universe…
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces.
What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true nature of those needs, to fulfill them, and rejoice therein.
When man continues to destroy nature, he saws the very branch on which he sits since the rational protection of nature is at the same time the protection of mankind
Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world.
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did a lot of drugs' sort of way." - Becks
There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things.
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture of nature.
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender fetuses, although procreation is the work of God.
Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.
The way I look at a musical, you are commenting on the human condition no matter what you do. A musical may be light and frivolous, but by its very nature, it makes some kind of social comment.
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.
Bodies fall towards the earth as it is in the nature of the earth to attract bodies, just as it is in the nature of water to flow.
Decide what you want and don't think of the intermediary conditions. When Nature works for us we should want what we want and Nature will work it out for us.
Our original nature is...void, omnipresent, silent, pure; it is glorious and mysterious peaceful joy - and that is all. Enter deeply into it by awakening yourself.
Christ wears "two shoes" in the world: scripture and nature. Both are necessary to understand the Lord, and at no stage can creation be seen as a separation of things from God.
Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.
Deserts look beautiful and green fields look beautiful too. Nature is genius because it knows how to look beautiful in every way.
Truth is not by nature free - nor error servile - but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.