Nature Quotes

And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.

To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.

Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

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

If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature.

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.

Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.

To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality.

Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.

The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

Comedy is second nature for me.

In nature there are few sharp lines.

The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature.

I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

Arkansas is really, really nice. It's got the nature feel.