Nature Quotes

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

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

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Science is based on reproducibility and manufactured objectivity. As strong as that makes its ability to generate claims about matter and energy, it also makes scientific knowledge inapplicable to the existential, visceral nature of human life, which is unique and subjective and unpredictable.

You can never really go wrong if you take nature as an example.

When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.

Nature is my church. The wind in the trees and the bugs and the frogs. All those things are comfort to me.

Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song, which had lost its way and come on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel's nature into us.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

We are estranged from our own deeper physiology because we are no longer in contact with nature. Instead, we are controlling nature with air pollution, heating, technology. But you have to know you have a depth within yourself which needs to be stimulated. If it doesn't get stimulated it becomes weaker, like a muscle that's not being used any more.

We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.

Winter is nature's way of saying, 'Up yours.'

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.