Nature Quotes

"Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul."

"It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth."

"The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us."

"One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others' weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all - to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high."

"If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it."

"I usually don't like to 'spoon feed' my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same."

"I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that I have a respect for life - in any form. I believe in nature, in the birds, the sea, the sky, in everything I can see or that there is real evidence for. If these things are what you mean by God, then I believe in God."

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

"To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature."

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

"The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer."

"Manners are the lubricating oil of an organization. It is a law of nature that two moving bodies in contact with each other create friction. This is as true for human beings as it is for inanimate objects."

"It is the nature of babies to be in bliss."

"It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature."

"Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances."

"Human nature is not of itself vicious."

"Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive."

"You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ we cannot halt our own moral slide."

"I am always more interested in people than plants. Nature doesn't make gardens, people make gardens. And the story of a garden is always the story of a person."

"What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature."

"I think when you win the national championship, it works throughout your team. Where human nature is to say, I did well. I got my quota this month. Now do I get some time off? Do I get a bonus? Do I get to go on a cruise? But it's not to keep trying to be the best. That's not necessarily human nature."

"We humans are self-absorbed by nature, and spend most of our time focusing inwardly on our emotions, on our wounds, on our fantasies."

"We need no fanciful teaching regarding the personality of God. What God desires us to know of Him is revealed in His word and His works. The beautiful things of nature reveal His character and His power as Creator."

"Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed."

"Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity."

"The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit."

"The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more."

"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."

"I'm a boss by nature. I'm bossy. I'm not imperious, but I don't really want people to curtsy low before me and back out of rooms, but I do like to run things."

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

"Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else."

"The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself."

"No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground."

"Truth by its very nature is divisive."

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

"Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?"

"We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings."

"Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be."

"One can ascend to a higher development only by bringing rhythm and repetition into one's life. Rhythm holds sway in all nature."

"I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature."

"Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her."

"He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life."

"There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit."

"Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature."

"We try to turn buildings into landscapes - defying the idea of modernism which sees nature and buildings as two distinct elements."

"The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered."

"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous."

"It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error."

"Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not."

"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same."