Nature Quotes

A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along.

As physics is a mental reconstruction of material processes, perhaps a physical reconstruction of psychic processes is possible in nature itself.

I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my spirits are rising. To walk in nature is always good medicine.

Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton.

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

Take time to be still, in a hallowed place in nature, and you'll discover that you are connected to everything.

Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it is our job.

My profession is to always find God in nature.

Conservatives try to adjust their behavior to fit the facts of nature. Liberals try to adjust the facts of nature to fit their behavior.

A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable.

We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.

Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature.

The Batman type of story may stimulate children to homosexual fantasies, of the nature of which they may be unconscious.

Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.

The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy.

My mind can take no hold on the present world, nor rest in it a moment, but my whole nature rushes onward with irresistible force towards a future and better state of being.

I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?

Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!

It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.

Where innocent bright-eyes daisies are With blades of grass between, Each daisy stands up like a star Out of a sky of green.

If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.

The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

God and Nature met in light.

A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.

As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.

Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.

As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

You are one of the forces of nature.

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food

Whenever I look at a mountain I always expect it to turn into a volcano.

The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.

I am a demonstrative man, a baby picker-upper, a hugger and a kisser--that's my nature.

I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature

I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.

Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.

They do say breastfeeding is nature’s lipo.

One must flee those places where life throbs and seek out lonely spots untouched by human hand in order to lift the magic veil of nature

In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.

Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

It seems reasonable to expect that beauty will emerge from a fusion of the individual character and culture of the potter,with the nature of his materials.

If people were superior to animals, they'd take good care of them," said Pooh.