Nature Quotes

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

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.

Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

Family, nature and health all go together.

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.

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

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

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.

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.