Nature Quotes

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still.

It would seem that unless we see through and beyond the physical, we shall not even see the physical as we ought to see it: as the very vehicle for the glory of God

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration into the laws of nature.

Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice.

Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.

Mother nature has the power to please, to comfort, to calm, and to nature one's soul.

It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.

Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

I'm not sure exactly why I chase storms. Perhaps it's to witness the incredible beauty of what Mother Nature can create.

There is nothing pleasurable except what is in harmony with the utmost depths of our divine nature.

I know how to be strong. I know how to be ruthless. It's part of my nature. I wouldn't be an actor if I wasn't.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

Eventually, you have to stop picking a fight with your true nature and decide to seek the joy that underlies it all.

My nature is to provoke, that's true. I can't help myself. But it's always with good intentions.

In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena.

There are no evils in Nature, there are only evils of Man.

If you want to find Buddha nature, love someone and care for them.

He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.

Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth.

Study nature not books

The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth.

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature.

Time spent in nature decreases stress and anxiety and improves focus for adults as well as children.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature

Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose, and, I daresay, an aesthetic purpose.

The mention of Greece fills the mind with the most exalted sentiments and arouses in our bosoms the best feelings of which our nature is capable.

It is not really necessary to destroy nature in order to gain God's favor or even his undivided attention.

Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate.

Although believers by nature are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.

The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.

Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! Oh look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

How else could she know that it needed all the strength of my love for her to leave now and give her back to nature - to let her learn to live alone until she might find her pride - her real pride?

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.

Now, Israel is a fulfillment, and as a fulfillment, it is flawed. The fact that it is flawed is not so much a testimony about the failures of Israel. No, it is a testimony about the nature of dreams.

Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.

When we make mistakes they call it evil. When God makes mistakes they call it Nature!

There is no debate in the scientific community...We need [Congress] to change things, not to deny what's happening.