Nature Quotes

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

A monk asks:Is there anything more miraculous than the wonders of nature?The master answers:Yes, your awareness of the wonders of nature.

Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.

The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can.

Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.

You govern your surroundings by the nature of what is taking place in your consciousness.

Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were a present far too small: Love so amazing, so divine Demands my soul, my life, my all.

Let us first teach little children to breathe, to vibrate, to feel, and to become one with the general harmony and movement of nature. Let us first produce a beautiful human being, a dancing child.

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

Public art is ephemeral by nature. Google 's new project not only catalogs an artist's work but archives it and allows people to see the art long after it has disappeared.

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

Every thing is of the nature of no thing.

Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

When man violates man's laws, we send him to jail and point the finger of scorn at him. When he violates nature's laws, we send him to a hospital, give him flowers, and feel sorry for him.

I believe in nature and humanity and am here to serve the common people of Pakistan. There is a great deal of suffering in this country and I'm here to help.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.

Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors.

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

Trees are your best antiques

Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise.

Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.

Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children's lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land.

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.

Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.

We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love.

Only those who want nothing are masters of Nature.

The development of a rational view of the nature of catalysis was thus absolutely dependent on the creation of the concept of the rate of chemical reaction.

Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

Be empty. Be still. Just watch everything come and go. This is the way of Nature.

Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are the very nature of a family.

It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat.

When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they can only take it away.

Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money.

The universe is not in a steady state; there's an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards.

Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.