Nature Quotes

"A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser."

"Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space."

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."

"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."

"Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo."

"All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child."

"All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature."

"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation."

"All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from."

"All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was."

"Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating."

"An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings."

"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

"As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway."

"As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on."

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."

"Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw."

"Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?"

"Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent."

"Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours."

"But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean."

"By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop."

"Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God."

"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function."

"Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be."

"Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man."

"Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher."

"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead."

"Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff."

"Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature."

"Custom is second nature."

"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."

"Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle."

"Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life."

"Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation."

"Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature."

"Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole."

"Everything in excess is opposed to nature."

"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night."

"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."

"External nature is only internal nature writ large."

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."

"For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all."

"For greed all nature is too little."

"For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver."

"Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man."