Nature Quotes
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are.
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
The transcendent experience is brotherly love, nature, harmony and unity. Cultures, in trying to define it, try to define an external deity as opposed to the process.
Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature - The rustling of leaves in the wind, Raindrops falling, The humming of an insect, The first birdsong at dawn.
I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.
My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.
There is an untroubled harmony in everything, a full consonance in nature; only in our illusory freedom do we feel at variance with it.
Charlie Chaplin said something to the effect that humor is an act of defiance, that we must laugh in the face of our helplessness in the forces of nature or go insane. And where is he now? Dead.
How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature.
Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor.
We perceive nature through the senses, which give us images of forms of colour, sounds etc. A form which exists only in relation to another form on its own, it does not exist.
I've got an uncle myself. Nobody should be held responsible for their uncles. Nature's little throwbacks - that's how I look at it.
Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.
Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do.
Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance.
Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes
This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.
I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, the creatures of appetite, and that, to some extent, our very life is our disgrace.
The strictly logical mind is usually if not always at fault in its valuations of that defiantly illogical thing known as human nature.
What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!
The habit of ignoring Nature is deeply implanted in our times. This attitude reminds me of people who never look you in the eye; I find them disturbing and always have to look away.
To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.
The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the way in which many citizens perceive politics.
A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.
In Nature nothing remains constant. Everything is in a perpetual state of transformation, motion and change.
Nature is favourable to our effort when human awareness is being established more and more in pure consciousness.
It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.
All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.
The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.
Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.
But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.
Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both.
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything.
