Nature Quotes

Their [cats] effortless passing between the wild and domestic worlds suggests the kind of grace we need as a species to move between nature and culture.

The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.

Mountains don't kill people, they just sit there.

We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature.

When we recognize that the seemingly object nature of reality is nothing different than the subject nature of mind, which is rigpa, it is called enlightenment.

We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.

Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.

Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession has led to disaster.

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

Nature always levies her tribute.

As we meditate regularly, we let go of the conditioned beliefs and accumulated physical and mental toxicity that cloud our perception of our essential, unbounded nature.

Political rule is so natural and necessary to the human race that it cannot be withdrawn without destroying nature itself; for the nature of man is such that he is a social animal.

Nothing is evil which is according to nature.

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.

In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary

The most beautiful landscape cannot hold my fascinated attention as much as nature by the seaside and all that is connected with water.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind.

It's human nature to want to think the best of others, but if you listen carefully, people will always tell you who they are.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves.

Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.

More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture’s relationship to nature.

Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple - leaves with an early moon.

Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.

Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—

Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.

Just as in nature systems of order govern the growth and structure of animate and inanimate matter, so human activity itself has, since the earliest times, been distinguished by the quest for order.

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

We would be better off thinking of nature as a tiger than as a docile and compliant automaton that can never threaten our survival.

As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in that. That's what motivates me.

We live in an era with no real sense of community or connection to nature.

That is the nature of endings, it seems. They never end. When all the missing pieces of your life are found, put together with glue of memory and reason, there are more pieces to be found.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves.

Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.

All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.

When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong.

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise - they are what they are.

A star is extinguished, another will begin to shine - thus it is written in the Book of Nature