Nature Quotes

Oh, where is man That mortal god, that hath no mortal kin Or like on earth? Shall Nature's orator The interpreter of all her mystic strains Shall he be mute in Nature's jubilee?

Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance.

[God] is the kind Creator who brought forth nature out of nothing.

What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.

I like to do chill things on dates. I think it would be fun to go to the zoo. I know it's really weird and random, but I love animals. It'd be like a day of doing silly things, while enjoying nature.

It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames.

Government is a parasite-a cancer that by nature tries to spread deeper into society. Those who want to run others' lives won't give up and start minding their own business.

From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.

I think both nature and grace live within everyone, and I always strive to be in a world of grace and compassion.

I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature.

To reconnect with nature is key if we want to save the planet.

The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

Keep the child within alive. A child never tires of hearing the birds sing, never gets bored looking at flowers.

Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many.

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.

Nature may reach the same result in many ways.

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.

A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.

Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of nature.

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive.

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities.

The more you look, the more you will see.

Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat.

Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams must be beautiful if we are to judge by her countenance.

I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen.

I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.

We've got to somehow stabilize our connection to nature so that in 50 years from now, 500 years, 5,000 years from now there will still be a wild system and respect for what it takes to sustain us.

I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.

That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.

When a strong wind blows, the clouds vanish and blue sky appears. Similarly, when the powerful wisdom that understand the nature of the mind arises, the dark clouds of ego disappear.

If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Reintegration with Nature, which we are, is the recovery of spontaneity.

Nature is made in such a way as to be able to be understood. Or perhaps I should put it-more correctly-the other way around, and say that we are made in such a way as to be able to understand Nature.

Instead of trying to understand agriculture in its own terms, acknowledge that agriculture ultimately comes out of nature. Right now agriculture is the No. 1 threat to biodiversity on the planet.

A successful trader studies human nature and does the opposite of what the general public does.

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. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.

The dividing line between the wave or particle nature of matter and radiation is the moment “Now.” As this moment steadily advances through time it coagulates a wavy future into a particle past.

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.

For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.

I wanted to say something about the universe. There's God, angels, plants... and horseshit.

Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. . . . When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.

The sun - my almighty physician.