Nature Quotes

‎"If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves." E.Abbey

Yoga teaches us both to let go and to have exquisite awareness in every moment. We remember our essential spiritual nature and life becomes more joyful, meaningful, and carefree.

Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.

But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.

The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal.

All nature ... is a respiration Of the Spirit of God, who, in breathing hereafter Will inhale it into his bosom again, So that nothing but God alone will remain.

Pain is nature's way of telling you to slow down. Death is nature's way of telling you to stop.

Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.

Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a prime conservative force.

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life.

It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.

May I be at peace. May I awaken to the light of my own true nature. May I be healed and may I be the source of healing for others.

I am a big fan of vampires. I've always been obsessed with the genre, and the beautiful romanticism and erotic kind of nature of the immortal being, the undead who lives on human blood.

Here man is no longer the center of the world, only a witness, but a witness who is also a partner in the silent life of Nature, bound by secret affinities of the trees.

As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water has of going about beyond the reach of rivers?

The quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.

Nature has ordained that the man who is pleading his own cause before a large audience, will be more readily listened to than he who has no object in view other than the public benefit.

Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.

Nature is a definite thing. But nurture is just as powerful. It can really mess with you.

Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.

Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.

Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

For the nature of a women is closely allied to art. [Ger., Denn das Naturell der Frauen Ist so nah mit Kunst verwandt.]

Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature.

The best way to manage anything is by making use of its own nature.

The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.

By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.

The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.

The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.

Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attempts to master it.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree

Nature is not matter only. She is also a spirit

The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture

The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature.

Western artists stand as humans looking at nature; Asian artists try to be in nature. You become one with nature rather than painting a portrait of it. That's a big shift.

Wine, one of the noblest cordials in nature.

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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

Living in the world without insight into the hidden laws of nature is like not knowing the language of the country in which one was born.

What are numbers? What is the nature of arithmetical truth?

Fermentation is the exhalation of a substance through the admixture of a ferment which, by virtue of its spirit, penetrates the mass and transforms it into its own nature.

There is for a free man no occupation more worthy and delightful than to contemplate the beauteous works of nature and honor the infinite wisdom and goodness of God.

Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.

the better angels of our nature

Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.