Nature Quotes

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

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

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated.

Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.

Because the quality of living with nature and allowing it to manifest itself is different than the quality of living in a city, especially a dense city.

You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else.

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.

But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that.

I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these drugs that they give you that will lead you to heart surgery and things of that nature.

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.

Man is nature's sole mistake.

I don't know if people feel this way, but I think by nature that when you start off as a young pop singer, they assume that you're a bit pampered, prissy, and precious, or that you live in a bubble and not in the real world. For me that's not the case.

That's human nature - the ups and downs.

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

The natural capital is not income, but we spend our natural capital as if it were revenue, as if it were going to come back next year without any problems, whereas these renewals in nature can take hundreds of years.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world.

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.

By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.

Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.