Nature Quotes

Nature expresses a design of love and truth.

I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.

The opposite of nature is impossible.

People talk about nature as a mother, but to me she's always been Medea, ready and willing to slaughter her children.

We are like artists by nature, constantly we're trying to add beauty to movements.

Beauty's of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!

Nature's first green is gold.

The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future.

Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.

The wave is ignorant of the true nature of the sea: how can the temporal comprehend the eternal?

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither "good" or "bad", and who knows neither love nor hatred.

Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature.

The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod.

You know that you are. Don't burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real nature.

Never say, ‘No’, never say, ‘I cannot’, for you are infinite. Even time and space are as nothing compared with your nature. You can do anything and everything, you are almighty

That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas cannot penetrate into the heart of society.

Humility is knowing that you can get an answer from anybody: be it a child, another person, or nature.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

At certain times, a silent mind is very important, but 'silent' does not mean closed. The silent mind is an alert, awakened mind; a mind seeking the nature of reality.

Don't think that examining and knowing the nature of your mind is just an Eastern trip. That's a wrong conception. It's your trip.

Nature is not a drag on growth - its protection is an unavoidable prerequisite for sustaining economic development.

Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

I like Alaska for the salmon fishing - it's fantastic there. I usually stay in a log cabin with no one around for miles. I like to go with friends, but I'm also happy to be on my own with nature.

A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.

If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.

I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

As we gaze into the mirror it holds up for us, we too easily imagine that what we behold is Nature when in fact we see the reflection of our own unexamined longings and desires.

A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, Quoted, and sign'd, to do a deed of shame.

The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.

The streams with softest sound are flowing, The grass you almost hear it growing, You hear it now, if e'er you can.

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

Men argue. Nature acts.

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

Reason forbade me many things which, Instinctively, my nature was attracted to; And a perpetual loss I feel if, knowing, I believe a falsehood or deny the truth.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

When logics die, The secret of the soil grows through the eye, And blood jumps in the sun; Above the waste allotments the dawn halts.

I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, Concerning the Nature of Things.

There's no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other. There's always a difference. We all have a more or less crooked nose and an irregular mouth.

I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple

I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.