Nature Quotes (5062 Quotes)

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

The living self has one purpose only to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

This thing all things devours Birds, beasts, trees, flowers Gnaws iron, bites steel Grinds hard stones to meal Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountains down Time.

It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility. from The Scarlet Letter

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

The look on his face was something you see only a few times in your life, ... This horror grips you, becomes almost unimaginable in your ability to live with it. But that is our job, to live with the risk. This is the nature of people who hold lives in their hands.

I think it bespeaks a generous nature, a man who can cook.

Ecologists have debated for decades whether there is ecological value to species diversity. We found that in forests throughout the New and Old World tropics, older trees are more diverse than younger ones. In other words, diversity is actually selected f

We don't invent our natures. They're issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else.

This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the sun sink down, drowned in his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature, and make a sympathetic one drunk with ecstasy.

Then We cause to grow thereby gardens of palm trees and grapes for you you have in them many fruits and from them do you eat And a tree that grows out of Mount Sinai which produces oil and a condiment for those who eat.

Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.

Nature ultimately determines what will come out. The conditions last year were evidently congenial for good survival.

Bless you, O little Christmas Tree!

People came to APEC with an expectation that the nature of the new administration would be known, and as of yet the answer to that question is not clear,

The tallest tree in the history of African American journalism has fallen, but has fallen gracefully. The tree that stood tall for over 60 years and a tree that planted a forest, a tree with widespread limbs and full of fruit. He connected to Africa and African Americans. He shared the pain of Emmett Till, the development of Martin Luther King Jr., and was a source of information and inspiration. He was the number one black publisher for 60 years. His impact had been felt through the whole world of journalism.

Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

It's a wide, wide world and you are surrounded by in large, even in the harried times in which we live, you are surrounded by nature. And guess what We are not we are certainly different than the eagles but in fact, we are as dependant on mother earth as are they.

She's not forgiven me, but we have a wonderful life from our family and that's the nature and quality of that woman that she can say that.

Learn hence for Ancient Rules a just Esteem;
To copy Nature is to copy Them.

Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.

Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be untruthful enough, but their untruth lacks the infusion of candor which a skillful male liar can introduce.

Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.

There's almost always clues given. Trees don't just fall down. There's something that's gone wrong,

Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

I was amazed at the house that I grew up in; it looks practically identical to the way it was, but I couldn't recognize it because of the size of the trees.

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

At the same time, I think it's human nature, over 162 games, every once in a while, a player will get upset, ... But it can't be about that.

The plans do not call for a tree in the wall. We're going to send somebody out to look at this.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

What I have been preparing to say is this, in wildness is the preservation of the world ... Life consists of wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued by man, its presence refreshes him.... When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature. In short, all good things are wild and free.

All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of Light which has been spent, and this crumpled mass called material casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.- Louis Kahn

That's the nature of the game. One situation like that can change an inning. But we've got to be able to overcome things like that.

I think the course is definitely a better course. It's tough, that's for sure. The rough is just slightly longer than it's been in the past two years. With the fairways getting so firm now, the rough tends to stop the ball a little bit from running into the trees.

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

Think about the amount of energy it takes a person to walk across a nice, dry, grassy area versus a field of mud. The same is true for livestock. Also, livestock may be huddled up under a tree to escape the rain and aren't coming to the feeding area. It may be a challenge to get enough nutrients into them.

He's got that goofy smile and the kids love him with the big head, ... He reminds me of Ramon Castro. He's very friendly, outgoing. Mr. Met just symbolizes mascots in general the quirky nature, the way he carries himself. It's fun to look up in the stands sometimes and see what kind of shenanigans he's up to.

Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.