Nature Quotes

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

Nature is the art of God.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

I am two with nature.

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Man is by nature a political animal.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

Nature does nothing in vain.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

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.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

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.

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.

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

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

Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want events of that nature ever to happen again, and I have dedicated an important part of my life to ensuring that and to the reunion of all Chileans.

I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

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

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

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

The skull is nature's sculpture.

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.

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

I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.

Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.