Nature Quotes

Women, by nature, want to be dominated.

A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself.

The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity's trying to accomplish something.

Although natural farming - since it can teach people to cultivate a deep understanding of nature - may lead to spiritual insight, it's not strictly a spiritual practice.

Animals too experience sorrow, love, anger and other emotions.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.

To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.

It was on the cross of Calvary that God, in Christ, dealt fully and finally with self, the nature from which all our sins flow.

The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.

The nature of illusion is that, when you see through it, it disappears.

Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property.

Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.

A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.

Harmony with nature will bring you a happiness known to few city dwellers. In the company of other truth seekers it will be easier for you to meditate and think of God.

The poor homosexuals -- they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS).

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul.

Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not grace.

The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

We need to remind ourselves of the beauty of human connection and of nature and pull ourselves out of devices for a moment and appreciate what it is just to be human beings.

I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior.

Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.

Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.

Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.

I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.

There is a saying in China that the nature of man is found there, in the center, where emotions are not yet manifest. In this center is the potentiality of everything to come.

Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the game is its own referee.

The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.

From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, "mankind abhors equality."

There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.

Nature taking its course - hunter and prey, the endless circle of life and death.

Rich with the spoils of nature.

For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.

Sure Man was born to meditate on things, And to contemplate the eternal springs Of God and Nature, glory, bliss and pleasure: That life and love might be his eternal treasure.

What I experienced with the bears where I discovered my true nature within myself, was not able to be discovered or experienced in this world in society.

A culture disconnected from wild nature becomes insane.

Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.

A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.

To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

In motion alone is the answer to all of the mysteries of matter.

The Same organizing forces that have shaped nature in all her forms are also responsible for the structure of our minds.

In nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read.

May books and nature be their early joy!

Grasses are misty, The waters silent- A tranquil evening.

Nature has always had more force than education.

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.