Nature Quotes

Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and methods of operations are understandable to men.

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.

We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people.

The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.

As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool.

If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

The birth and rebirth of all nature, / The passing of winter and spring, / We share with the life universal, / Rejoice in the magical ring.

We must go and see for ourselves.

There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.

Evolution, as a mechanism, can be and must be true. But that says nothing about the nature of its author. For those who believe in God, there are reasons now to be more in awe, not less.

More and more people seem to be separating from nature. I'm trying to go in a different direction. I'm getting closer and closer.

May you know the beauty of your own true nature.

The stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own.

Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally

The best kiss in nature is not between Romeo and Juliet, but it is between a dying autumn leaf and a shiny water drop!

Oh Lord, purify my soul from all its stains. Warm my heart with the love of thee, animate my sluggish nature and fix my inconstancy, and volatility, that I may not be weary in well doing.

He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.

When the goal of political action is no longer the defense of liberty, no word other than demagoguery can describe the despicable nature of politics.

I usually dont like to spoon feed my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

We will go into the future as a single sacred community, or we will all perish in the desert.

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine

I don't work from nature, I work like nature.

Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which is the immemorial youth of nature.

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.

Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.

The national park is the best idea America ever had.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. It takes you to a place within yourself.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.

Nature is the mirror of divinity.

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.

Seems you can't outsmart Mother Nature.

In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.

For Nature is love, and finds haunts for true love, Where nothing can hear or intrude; It hides from the eagle and joins with the dove, In beautiful green solitude.

For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases

If people looked at the stars each night, they'd live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.

The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it.

Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.

False hope is worse than despair.

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.