Nature Quotes

Patience is a strength, not a weakness; and if by practicing patience we stop retaliating to harm and criticism, people will gradually come to understand that our real nature is very special

You don't really conquer a mountain, you conquer yourself. You overcome sickness & everything else - your pains, aches, fears - to reach the summit.

In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature.

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel

No matter how often you knock at nature's door, she won't answer in words you can understand--for Nature is dumb. She'll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn't expect a song.

God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.

There's no such thing as a grown up person.

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it.

One thing you cannot control is nature.

In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

To be modern is to destroy nature.

Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.

My advice to those who which to learn the art of scientific prophesy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to decipher the secret language of Nature from Nature's documents: the facts of experience.

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men.

[One] who is healthy in body, resourceful in soul and of a readily teachable nature.

Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.

What would our lives be like if our days and nights were as immersed in nature as they are in technology?

We're a team, and just by the nature of our sport, we're always promoted together. I think we are definitely two different people with two different personalities, but we're always linked.

The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.

Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.

In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in the most diverse directions.

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window

The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world.

To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

Photography is nature seen from the eyes outwards. Painting is nature seen from the eyes inwards.

The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.

Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts.

Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe it in a series of elementary propositions.

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.

Everybody needs time to reflect and contemplate, and the most inspirational and peaceful place to do so is in nature.

Allow nature to teach you stillness.

Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.

The Divine Plan is one of Freedom. The inherent nature of man is ever seeking to express itself in terms of freedom, because freedom is the birthright of every living soul.

Nature is woman's best friend,' she [Yasmina] often said. 'If you're having troubles, you just swim in the water, stretch out in a field, or look up at the stars. That's how a woman cures her fears'.

Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have need of a cause which you understand not at all.

Primates are the only animals on the face of the earth that can taste sweet and see color. We were designed by nature to see, grasp, eat, and enjoy the flavor of colorful, sweet fruits.