Nature Quotes
Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma.
The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.
Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.
More inhumanity (to man) has been done by man himself than any other of nature's causes.
For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. In landscape or seascape, I love above all the poetic motif.
Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish.
The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.
Natural play strengthens children's self-confidence and arouses their senses-their awareness of the world and all that moves in it, seen and unseen.
The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.
...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.
Don't look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
Even in earliest youth my fondest desire was to understand Nature, and thus to come closer to the truth; a truth that I was unable to discover either at school or in church.
Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage
If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop of kakapo to amuse me in the evening instead of television.
Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.
Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.
The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.
The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.
Whatever you've learned becomes truly useful to you only once it has become second nature.
Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.
Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or essence, their nature may differ most profoundly.
Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves.
Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.
It's not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades.
Here comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer; noises and perfumes circle in the evening air.
The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling... every crystal, every flower a window opening into heaven, a mirror reflecting the Creator.
There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.
Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.
I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused.
We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.
Nothing is impossible to us, except of course, that which is contrary to the laws of nature and the Universe.
It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon the level of technology and the ability to create new knowledge.
Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.
In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.
We are making choices that will affect whether beings thousands of generations from now will be able to be born sound of mind and body.
Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a phony.