Nature Quotes

I do not see why man should not be as cruel as nature

The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions of living.

If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey.

You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.

It is not human nature to enjoy what we get with no effort.

Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.

The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape our history.

Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law of nature which forced man to work, but the effect of a curse.

If you're willing to answer yes to a God outside of nature, then there's nothing inconsistent with God on rare occasions choosing to invade the natural world in a way that appears miraculous.

Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people.

Wildlife of the world is disappearing, not because of a malicious and deliberate policy of slaughter and extermination, but simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect.

Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws.

Love is the first ingredient in the relief of suffering.

That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be.

To be awake is to be alive.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

As in everything, nature is the best instructor.

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.

What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated.

It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of the those things where you have to play yourself out of it.

Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.

Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature.

Nature goes to the same place to create a galaxy of stars: a cluster of nebulas, a rain forest, a human body, or a thought. That place is Spirit.

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.

Instead of trying to modify what nature brought us, we embraced it.

Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life.

Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.

If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.

If man walks in nature's midst, then he is nature's guest and must learn to behave as a well-brought-up guest.

Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'.

I have had three masters, Nature, Velasquez, and Rembrandt.

The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely great.

Only love can penetrate all your karmas and resistances and set your heart on fire with the awareness of its true nature.

A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.

I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me of the plans I am to fulfill.

This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus.

When your situation has gone beyond the power of nature, it has become a curse. Who can remove a curse but Jesus Christ?

A new year is a gift from God, a part of the Divine nature of God.

Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned knees.

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.