Nature Quotes

Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.'

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.

I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful!

The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this.

Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers.

Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends.

The main obstacle to our development is our lack of knowledge about the nature of consciousness itself.

By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.

As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.

As any gardener will tell you, the cycles of nature require patience...Even a fast-growing vegetable like a radish requires time.

Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.

Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.

Nature appears not to have intended that any flower should be fertilized by its own pollen.

I think of myself as a kind of reporter; I report on the nature of certain events. I think of art as a report on civilization at a certain time.

By nature, Im an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.

It's just a part of our nature to hope.

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature was, the fall of our first parents.

Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould.

When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.

The soul of a landscape, the spirits of the elements, the genius of every place will be revealed to a loving view of nature.

Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash.

Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.

Human nature at times is unfortunately very ugly and I learned the world can be a very ugly place. For as much beauty there is, there's just as much brutality and violence and ugliness.

Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.

Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

I think we have to recover our spiritual nature. The way we have interpreted Christianity does not do that.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.

There are no accidents in Nature.

Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.

The true nature of mankind comes down to a simple question: 'Do we teach children how to be good or how to be bad?'

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

It is possible to do something, and to do something meticulously and completely with out creating a goal... all nature works this way.

Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth.

There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.

The most important thing for me is the direct observation of nature in its light-filled existence.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

For every person that likes you there is going to be a person that doesn't like you. It's the nature of humanity.

I think by its very nature, it's redundant, you know, being the play-by-play guy on television.

Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.

All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure.

Art sometimes is as simple as nothing, and other times as mysterious as nature or a woman.