Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
Nature… is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
The primary and most beautiful of Nature’s qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.
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.
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
Study nature, not books.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Self-preservation, nature’s first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we’ve always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.
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.
The good man is the friend of all living things.
I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation.
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.
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern life probably plays a significant role in the epidemic incidence of depression today. Many studies show that depressed patients who stick to a regimen of aerobic exercise improve as much as those treated with medication.
It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
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.
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
My brother and I were brought up outdoors. We appreciate the countryside; we appreciate nature and everything about it.
Self-defence is Nature’s eldest law.
Sunlight is painting.
Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children’s faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye… it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
Nature’s far too subtle to repeat herself.
Habit is ten times nature.
My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.
I’m a really natural person; I love nature.
So many times, people told me I can’t do this or can’t do that. My nature is that I don’t listen very well. I’m very determined, and I believe in myself. My parents brought me up that way. Thank God for that. I don’t let anything stand in my way.
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
I’m very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.
Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring?
Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
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.
Man is by nature a political animal.
All the seven deadly sins are man’s true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you’re made to feel guilty for being human, then you’re going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can’t escape from.
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
I can’t go against my nature because I am what I am. I don’t try to be anyone different to who I am.
What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it.
A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
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.
There is no forgiveness in nature.
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.
To many people, ‘biodiversity’ is almost synonymous with the word ‘nature,’ and ‘nature’ brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.
That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.
Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
The world is always in movement.
Beauty is nature’s brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature’s finest balm.
In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
