Nature quotes

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.

To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature. If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

I don't work according to nature, but infront and together with it. An artist must observe the nature, but never confuse it with the art.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

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

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

It is the unconquerable nature of man and not the nature of the weapon he uses that ensures victory.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.

You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

The state is a creation of nature and man is by nature a political animal.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.

If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.

I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful!

For the state by its nature claims sovereignty, the right to an unlimited development of power, determined only by self-interest. It is by nature anarchistic.

Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.

Man does not bring to God's altar the stuff of nature in itself, in its initial structure, but something he has made and molded out of nature for the nourishment and the inspiration of men.

I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace.

Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

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.

Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.