Nature Quotes

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.

You are one of the forces of nature.

Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.

I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature.

Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.

In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.

Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

The nature of the task needs to be renewed so people just don't feel that all the hard work is in the same groove all the time, under the same circumstances and in the same environment.

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.