Nature Quotes
A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite.
It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.
The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.
Nature is beautiful, not because it changes beautifully, but simply because it changes.
The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.
The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence .
Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a dysfunctional delusion.
Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it.
The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.
In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.
Souls do not wish to be bullied, but gently brought back; such is the nature of man.
Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure
The purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the sky-like nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our unchanging pure awareness, which underlies the whole of life and death
I like women who look like me. Generally, you're attracted to women who look like you, because the most beautiful thing in nature is your own reflection.
It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
No matter how confused or deluded we may be at the moment, the underlying and essential nature of our being is clear and pure
Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.
What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?
The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.
Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure.
The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.
Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study nature often and then practice continually.
Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.
Whenever I have a serious problem or some assignment of a creative nature...I always receive more assistance in the early morning hours than at any other time of the day.
In a way Winter is the real Spring - the time when the inner things happen, the resurgence of nature.
About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.
All machinery is derived from nature, and is founded on the teaching and instruction of the revolution of the firmament.
The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind.
At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.
That which is lacking in the present world is a profound knowledge of the nature of things.
We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor.
Always remember that Nature refuses to be rushed. She can only be made to evolve and that takes time, so take heart.