Top 66 Nature Cannot Change Quotes
#1. The evil is not that you cannot change human nature. The evil is that human nature cannot change you.
Barrows Dunham
#2. Some prefer the wildness. Some the calm. There's enough of both in the world for everyone to have their choice. And enough time for any to change their mind.
Nora Roberts
#3. With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.
Kate Bernheimer
#4. It is a common law of nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors.
Dionysius Of Halicarnassus
#5. Afghans think the burqa is a permanent part of culture. But, if you bring it to Europe, how would people react? Afghanistan doesn't want to change its culture, but it can change, all the time. So why are Afghans giving so much value to it? The burqa is not natural. It's not human nature.
Malina Suliman
#6. Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear anything. We are whole: our deepest happiness is intrinsic to the nature of our minds, and it is not damaged through uncertainty and change.
Sharon Salzberg
#7. Many call this process 'the destruction of nature.' But it's not really destruction, it's change. Nature cannot be destroyed.
Yuval Noah Harari
#8. Ah, the painful truth: Fate was a cosmic toilet. It was the nature of the universe to flush sluggish things that failed to exercise free will. Stasis was stagnancy. Change was velocity. Fate - a sniper that preferred a motionless target to a dancing one.
Karen Marie Moning
#9. Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, and they forget that their organizations' true nature is that of a community of humans.
Arie De Geus
#10. When the seasons change, we experience a sympathetic internal shift. All life-forms open themselves up to receive cosmic redirection from nature during these crucial seasonal transitions, so we are likely to be more vulnerable and unsettled.
Maya Tiwari
#11. Stop listening to the TV tell you about America the beautiful ... get up and be America the beautiful.
Rivera Sun
#12. One felt that the mountains are not completed. The builders are still at work. Stones come rolling and jumping from the upper scaffolding and often from the chasms one hears the thundering as the gods of the mountains change their minds.
J. E. H. MacDonald
#13. There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#14. Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.
Pope John Paul II
#15. When it comes to trying to manage how our entire planet-wide market and all the people and businesses in it deal with nature and our natural resources - we first and foremost need to change the incentives.
Ramez Naam
#16. It is easy to change the landscape of mountains and rivers but it is difficult to change one's nature.
You-Sheng Li
#17. It is human nature to resist change... but yet, it is human nature to be innovative. Humans are contradicitve based on the fact that innovation requires change.
Faith Tilley Johnson
#18. (Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.
Bernard Malamud
#19. One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature.
Emile Durkheim
#20. I have to understand the nature of change. And I cannot just work with stone or the more permanent materials. I need to work with leaves and ice and snow and mud and clay and water and the rising tide and the wind and all these.
Andy Goldsworthy
#21. The love of nature is a passion for those in whom it once lodges. It can never be quenched. It cannot change. It is a furious, burning, physical greed, as well as a state of mystical exaltation. It will have its own.
Mary Webb
#22. Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
Joseph Addison
#23. A person's true nature, true self, cannot change with situations.
It is totally consistent.
Abhishek Ratna
#24. When loving with human love one may pass from love to hatred, but divine love cannot change.
Leo Tolstoy
#25. Love is the sweetest, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature.
George R R Martin
#26. One of our greatest assets is that all men aspire to be equal and free. This fact haunts the rulers of the Kremlin today for even they cannot change this law of nature and they know it. It is up to us, not only by example but by positive acts, to make the most of this driving force within mankind.
Allen Dulles
#27. So it does turn out that we do need to begin by contemplating the profound nature of self and other. Because if you change the leaves and branches but leave the roots intact, you run the risk of reverting to type.
Norman Fischer
#28. He who has mastered the true nature of life does not labor over what life cannot do. He who has mastered the true nature of fate does not labor over what knowledge cannot change.
Zhuangzi
#29. The world of man in the world of nature, cannot be change without physical appearance leads to positive possess by the initial human nature and could be change by habits of man.
Syed Afroz Alam
#30. Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature.
Lyanna
George R R Martin
#31. My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place [cell 54 of Cairo Central Prison] taught me that he who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never, therefore, make any progress.
Anwar Sadat
#32. It's strange because a lot of people are like, 'You can't change human nature-people are inherently negative.' I don't think that's true. If you expect the best from people, they'll step up.
Zooey Deschanel
#33. And the Divine Nature can change the past. Nothing is yet in its true form.
C.S. Lewis
#34. The natural world is built upon common motifs and patterns. Recognizing patterns in nature creates a map for locating yourself in change, and anticipation what is yet to come.
Sharon Weil
#35. Nature does abhor a vacuum, and when you begin moving out of your life what you do not want, you automatically are making way for what you do want. By letting go of the lesser, you automatically make room for your greater good to come in.
Catherine Ponder
#37. Love required sacrifice and making hard choices and doing things that were bigger than just you. It wasn't something you asked for, or could control or change. It was something you accepted. Love was a force of nature.
Kimberly Derting
#38. But as a wise and great teacher once explained so patiently, all good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, stories that cause you to become a better person from their telling-these stories always contain truth.
Camron Wright
#39. Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.
Nikki Giovanni
#40. You may read any quantity of books, and you may almost as ignorant as you were at starting, if you don't have, at the back of yourminds, the change for words in definite images which can only be acquired through the operation of your observing faculties on the phenomena of nature.
Thomas Huxley
#41. It is nature that is changing, not the soul of man. This never changes.
Swami Vivekananda
#42. The enemy is over there and we are still seeking revenge from the nature.
M.F. Moonzajer
#43. The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.
Tim Winton
#44. No man can sincerely resolve to apply to his daily life the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth without sensing a change in his own nature. The phrase, 'born again', has a deeper significance than many people attach to it. This changed feeling may be indescribable, but it is real.
David O. McKay
#45. But you cannot change your nature. If you are a lonely creature, this cannot be undone. Something will always crop up to remind you.
Adrienne Celt
#46. Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash.
Alfred W. Crosby
#47. Master Yourself and you master your environment! Such is the nature of wisdom.
D. Nicole Williams
#48. People are always alert to any change and skeptical by nature.
Jared Kushner
#49. The current climate change is an outer mirror of our inner consciousness. It is an outer mirror of our attitude to try to conquer nature, instead of being in harmony with nature, but in the end the part can never conquer the whole.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#50. Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions ... by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.
Malcolm Gladwell
#51. In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
Richard M. Nixon
#52. We always say that nature cannot be change, but we forget that change is the name of nature
Hasnain Shakeel
#53. All living things must grow or they will die. Adaptation to change is a characteristic of all living systems. Thus, all living things must grow, adapt, evolve, or die. Evolution is nature's creative way of pushing living organisms to higher degrees of complexity. We adapt up, not compromise down.
Alvin Conway
#54. How silly then to imagine that the human mind, which is formed of the same elements as divine beings, objects to movement and change of abode, while the divine nature finds delight and even self-preservation in continual and very rapid change.
Seneca.
#55. Nature is not static, but causes its own, internally-generated changes - both in climate and in biological systems.
Roy Spencer
#56. There are no intermediaries when it comes to matters of change. Anyone who is not for change is against it. Anyone who is against change is an enemy of nature!
Israelmore Ayivor
#57. In our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is our greatest strength, our most fundamental identity. Without impermanence, there is no process. The nature of life is change. All hope is based on process.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#58. The State, every government whatever its form, character or color - be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi or bolshevik - is by its very nature conservative, static, intolerant of change and opposed to it.
Emma Goldman
#59. I wonder as to the value of consciousness," said Jack, "if it does not change the nature of a beast.
Roger Zelazny
#60. We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund Burke
#61. It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.
Pat Metheny
#62. Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
Kin Hubbard
#63. True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
Jonathan Edwards
#64. Be grateful for holiness when you find it among churchmen, but do not expect it. As Flannery O'Connor wrote, "All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful. Priests resist it as well as others.
Rod Dreher
#66. Though we cannot totally change our nature, we may in great measure correct it by reflection and philosophy; and some philosophy is a very necessary companion in this world, where, even to the most fortunate, the chances are greatly against happiness.
Lord Chesterfield
