Nature Quotes

"Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them."

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

"Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control."

"It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion."

"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."

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

"There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism."

"Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature."

"In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful."

"External nature is only internal nature writ large."

"For greed all nature is too little."

"Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival."

"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature."

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

"To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature."

"Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom."

"Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature."

"Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little."

"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."

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

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

"Human nature is not black and white but black and grey."

"Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant."

"The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."

"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."

"Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price."

"If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy."

"You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid."

"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature."

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

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

"Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer."

"Nature surrounds us, from parks and backyards to streets and alleyways. Next time you go out for a walk, tread gently and remember that we are both inhabitants and stewards of nature in our neighbourhoods."

"It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them."

"Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax."

"It's not just human nature to associate in tribes. It's deeper than that."

"You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back."

"The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself."

"Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices."

"The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true 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."

"When one looks at Nature through the glass walls of the Farnsworth House, it takes on a deeper significance than when one stands outside. More of Nature is thus expressed - it becomes part of a greater whole."

"The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul."

"I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory."

"To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people."

"I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream."

"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."

"Man is by nature a political animal."

"It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you."

"Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd."