Nature Quotes
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.
I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
Will there be a time when equality will exist? I think given human nature there will always be conflict.
We're constantly changing and any practice meant to serve our authenticity should reflect our fluid nature.
Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.
We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house.
Now don't think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
He who is harmony with Nature hits the mark without effort and apprehends the truth without thinking.
If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?
Sometimes it seems to me that I am capable of absolutely nothing, but that nature through me can accomplish a great deal.
Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.
Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.
Having no human companion I felt a spirit of comradeship for the objects of nature around me. In my childish way I communed with these as with my own soul; they became the sharers of my confidence.
The nature of technology depends very much upon what the public can be induced to put up with.
When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.
You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.
Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome.
The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.
Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.
One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.
. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.
A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king.
We are meant to discover our authentic nature-the state of being in which we are inspired by ourselves, turned on, lit up, and excited about who we are.
Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.
It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.
The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.
The more that we gather at the seasonal tides of Nature, the more we become like Nature. When we become like Her it is easier to understand Her.
Forgiveness is the nature of my art in general. It's expressing love and compassion, the kinds of things that don't make sense in any other context other than emotive expression.
our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up
When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself.
Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.