Nature Quotes

Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.

Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.

If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry forever.

I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.

Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.

Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma.

Trees acquire strength by growing slowly and flexing with the pressures of nature. Us too.

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know.

Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.

Nature is none other than God in all things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.

When you don't follow your nature there is a hole in the universe where you were supposed to be.

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.

We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.

A woodpecker's drilling Echoes To the mountain clouds.

Nature is nobody's ally.

The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to.

In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless; it is our real nature.

Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.

There is no emptiness without appearance, and there is no appearance without emptiness. That is what we call the interdependent nature.

Emotional abuse is any type of abuse that is not physical in nature. It can include everything from verbal abuse to the silent treatment, domination to subtle manipulation.

Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right to live on?

I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.

My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.

There is no problem of human nature which is insoluble.

Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration.

But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.

It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.

If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living

The solution for mankind is of a spiritual nature. It is not a political or religious solution. It's the ability to love each other. That's the only solution I see.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly.

Only those who have felt the knife can understand the wound, only the jeweller knows the nature of the jewel.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.

The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.

Christianity is in its nature revolutionary

Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding.

The task that we face today is to understand the language of nature.

Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have.