Quotes About Nature

#1. Everything is possible to him who wills only what is true! Rest in Nature, study, know, then dare; dare to will, dare to act and be silent!

Eliphas Levi

#2. The nature of the internet is that you don't know who is behind the screen.

Louise Mensch

#3. Einstein occasionally used "God" as a metaphor for the unknown fundamental laws of nature.

Steven Weinberg

#4. The shape and texture of fruit is sensuous and fascinating, but the true delight blossoms when you experience the flavor of these colorful gifts of nature.

DeBarra Mayo

#5. Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit
or a mask.

William Hazlitt

#6. At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, you know, by the nature of the strokes themselves.

Chuck Close

#7. In our own time it has been seen ... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.

Giorgio Vasari

#8. I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.

William Golding

#9. Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God's eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes God's multicolored love story. History is His story.

Peter Kreeft

#10. Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.

Theodore Parker

#11. A culture disconnected from wild nature becomes insane.

Toby Hemenway

#12. I think any time you have a workplace that's heavily weighted to men just by the nature of what it is, the same way you can say PR or fashion is heavily occupied by women, there's always going to be a little bit of that sexism.

Erin Duffy

#13. How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!

William Shakespeare

#14. Appetite for food and sex is nature.

Laozi

#15. I was a mathematician by nature, and still am - I just knew I didn't want to be a mathematician. So I decided not to take any mathematics courses.

Stephen Sondheim

#16. Women are more proactive. By their nature, they're genetically designed to nurture their offspring. Men have always been the hunters in their society. But it's changing. Women are now doing two things: They're building companies and they're giving birth to kids.

Horst Rechelbacher

#17. You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature. I would gladly tell all that I know about it, and never paint "No Admittance" on my gate.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. O grant me, Heaven, a middle state, Neither too humble nor too great; More than enough, for nature's ends, With something left to treat my friends.

David Mallet

#19. There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

John Steinbeck

#20. I like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there.

Lars Von Trier

#21. Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. Gratitude is a state of mind that inherently recognizes interdependence with the external world, whether it be other humans, nature, the sacred, or a combination of these.

Carolyn Baker

#23. Makeup is for women. It's the law of nature for them to doll themselves up to get a man."
"On the contrary. [ ... ] In the natural world, it is the male of the species who is adorned with colors to attract, impress and keep his potential mate.

Dawn Flemington

#24. I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.

Steve Carell

#25. When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Nicolas Chamfort

#26. It is necessary, then, to give the child the possibility of developing according to the laws of his nature, so that he can become strong, and, having become strong, can do even more than we dared hope for him.

Maria Montessori

#27. Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#28. Naples was the great European metropolis where faith in technology, in science, in economic development, in the kindness of nature, in history that leads of necessity to improvement, in democracy, was revealed, most clearly and far in advance, to be completely without foundation.

Elena Ferrante

#29. His face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his nature could let him forget their defects.

Philip Pullman

#30. Beauty is Nature in perfection; circularity is its chief attribute. Behold the full moon, the enchanting golf ball, the domes of splendid temples, the huckleberry pie, the wedding ring, the circus ring, the ring for the waiter, and the "round" of drinks.

O. Henry

#31. Nothing is really beautiful unless it is useless; everything useful is ugly, for it expresses a need, and the needs of man are ignoble and disgusting, like his poor weak nature. The most useful place in a house is the lavatory.

Theophile Gautier

#32. Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.

Geraldo Rivera

#33. Spirituality is the empirical discovery of our divine nature by the shedding of who we thought we were - Renovatio Sutra #19

Paul Miller

#34. Nature is thought immersed in matter ...

Amos Bronson Alcott

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

Aristotle.

#36. You cannot control anything except your thoughts. With yoga, you do not control yourself but you harmonize with nature.

Debasish Mridha

#37. We were enveloped in that state of grace where one melds with the flow of Nature. Having once tasted it, one craves that state like water.

Jack Loeffler

#38. As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

Francis Bacon

#39. Theorists can be wrong; only nature is always right.

David Gross

#40. There is something eternal in the very nature of writing, as is so graphically illustrated by the scriptures themselves. In a very real sense, our properly written histories are a very important part of our family scripture and become a great source of spiritual strength to us and to our posterity

John H. Groberg

#41. Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#42. It certainly takes bravery to remain skeptical; it takes inordinate courage to introspect, to confront oneself, to accept one's limitations
Scientists are seeing more and more evidence that we are specifically designed by mother nature to fool ourselves.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#43. When I look back on it, I think, "Why didn't you stop the cruelty earlier?" To stand back was contrary to my upbringing and nature. When I stood back as a noninterfering experimental scientist, I was, in a sense, as drawn into the power of the situation as any prisoners and guards.

Philip Zimbardo

#44. Do go on doing a lot of walking and keep up your love of nature, for that is the right way to understand art better and better. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see. And there are painters who never do anything that is no good...

Vincent Van Gogh

#45. Those who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners

Dean Cavanagh

#46. Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal; sacrifice should be eternally supercilious. Weep not for me but for thy children.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#47. Some thinkers would feel sorely hampered if at liberty to use no forms but such as existed in nature, or to invent nothing save in accordance with the laws of the world of the senses; but
it must not therefore be imagined that they desire escape from the region of law.

George MacDonald

#48. Look natural, that is the best way. Flowers, plants, and animals are all content with how they look - satisfied with nature's endowment. Only human beings are eager to change what nature has given them.

Betty Jamie Chung

#49. Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.

Paul Cezanne

#50. It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

Jimmy Carter

#51. There has never been a painting that was more beautiful than nature. The model does not unfold herself to you, you must rise to her. She should be the inspiration for your painting. No man has ever over-appreciated a human being.

Robert Henri

#52. We live in an in-between universe where things change all right ... but according to patterns, rules, or as we call them, laws of nature.

Carl Sagan

#53. But unless we determine to take action,' said the old man querulously, as if struggling against something deeply insouciant in his nature, 'then we shall all be destroyed, we shall all die. Surely we care about that?' 'Not enough to want to get killed over it,' said Ford.

Douglas Adams

#54. Nature indifferently copied is far superior to the best idealities.

John James Audubon

#55. God knows greed won't vanish. Neither will hatred or chauvanism. Human nature is a stubborn thing. But it isn't beyond control. Even if our core impulses can;t be banished, they can be tempered and redirected.

Robert Wright

#56. We are lucky because we still have a magnificent temple called nature where we can find peace of mind in it!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#57. One of the criticisms we get is, 'Does the world need more plastic crap?' But you have to look beyond the plastic crap, to the design, to the experience, to the empowering nature of the MakerBot and the community.

Bre Pettis

#58. To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.

Thomas More

#59. We can affect people around us so much with our moods. A depressed person can make a room gloomy and a sweet nature can cause the lion to lie down with the lamb.

Polly Horvath

#60. The so-called miracle of birth is nature getting her own way.

Camille Paglia

#61. O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#62. The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely great.

Louis Pasteur

#63. Being that 'reason is not antithetical to faith' (Woods) and that Pentecost established the Reality of super-nature (Lewis) and that 'theology matters' (Wimber), then 'empowered evangelicalism' (Nathan) is the natural expression of discipleship."

~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#64. The more seriously we understand the radical nature of sin, the more it exercises a restraint upon us.

R.C. Sproul

#65. And I think back over my own life and I realize that my own nature-the core me-essentially hasn't changed all these years. When I wake up in the morning, for those first few moments before I remember where I am or when I am, I still feel that same way I did when I woke up at the age of five.

Douglas Coupland

#66. The law as it is considered as a rule can be no more abolished or changed than the nature of good and evil can be abolished or changed.

Samuel Bolton

#67. As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.

David Suzuki

#68. Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#69. ...notice all the many beautiful things, nature, your own soul, stuff other people do.... like help out, smile, create, dance...

Jay Woodman

#70. Fritz was melancholic by nature, and could tolerate his own gloom. I do not think this is so with you, who are sanguine and impatient. In your case, remorse and despondency could be crippling.

John Christopher

#71. Christianity has such a contemptible opinion of human nature that it does not believe a man can tell the truth unless frightened by a belief in god. No lower opinion of the human race has ever been expressed.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#72. We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. We can never have enough of nature.

Henry David Thoreau

#73. Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.

John Donne

#74. A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph.

Bjorn Lomborg

#75. Life and the environment are one thing, not two, and people, as all life, are immersed in the one system. When we influence nature, we influence ourselves; when we change nature, we change ourselves.

Daniel Botkin

#76. My perfect weekend ... anything to do with nature.

Paul Walker

#77. Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.

William Hazlitt

#78. The first brand was nature - everything after that was bullshit.

Bryant McGill

#79. My spiritual connection with nature is basically what we all have - you transcend yourself. It's what happens when you see a sunset, for example. If I were using a traditional religious term, I'd say I was connecting with God. For me, I feel that much more in nature than in a city.

Robert Johnson

#80. We must know the facts and be guided by them...nature does not forgive fools nor does she spare them the penalties of their folly

Ernest Callenbach

#81. But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.

Rene Descartes

#82. Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth
With such a full and unwithdrawing hand,
Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks,
Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable,
But all to please and sate the curious taste?

John Milton

#83. Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of the stars to cross ...

John Green

#84. I don't like sewing machines. I don't understand how a needle with a thread going through the tip of it can interlock the thread by jamming itself into a little goddamn spool. It's contrary to nature and it irritates me.

Neal Stephenson

#85. Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.

Kevin Hearne

#86. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude.

Aldous Huxley

#87. The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

Eric Hoffer

#88. Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

Livy

#89. There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.

Zora Neale Hurston

#90. Beauty combined with wantonness frequently ends in the drawn twitch, fixed eye and helpless limbs of life-in-death. It is Nature's revenge on the outraged body, - and do you know, Eternity's revenge on the impure Soul is extremely similar?

Marie Corelli

#91. The present Constitution, with a few alterations of a trifling nature, is just as good as we want; and if it is sustained on this land of Joseph, it will be done by us and our posterity.

Brigham Young

#92. To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature.

Walter Bagehot

#93. It seems like Weezer has gotten better and better at getting attention for everything besides our music. Part of that is just the nature of our culture now - you really have to scream to get some attention, so people even know you have a record out that they might want to listen to.

Rivers Cuomo

#94. If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us.

Herbert Gold

#95. Look at those beautiful villages, in the heart of nature." Evans was staring out the window but saw only poverty. The

Michael Crichton

#96. The Free Market is Mother Nature's way of organizing economic activity.

David D. Aitken

#97. Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.

Max Eastman

#98. Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature.

Camille Paglia

#99. It needs a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude.

Ouida

#100. Love, reverence, and adoration, are multifaceted emotions. Similar to a painting by an artist, how we respond to a beautiful woman, nature, and the world that we encounter reveals the spectator and not life.

Kilroy J. Oldster