Nature Quotes

For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.

Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature.

In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by which He has been made our neighbor, kinsman, and brother.

A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.

The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus.

You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

Nature made the fields and man the cities.

For the state by its nature claims sovereignty, the right to an unlimited development of power, determined only by self-interest. It is by nature anarchistic.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

I think with comedy I get very sort of critical of myself and try and do the best I can and it doesn't come as second nature. I work at those kinds of films. It doesn't mean I can't do them - I've done two now, and I have a great time doing them, but I just find myself a little bit more neurotic.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

There is also a marked global trend towards sustainable agriculture, building on traditional methods which use fewer chemical inputs, carefully manage soil and water resources, and work hand-in-hand with nature.

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

If I had it my way, I never would have left San Francisco, but things change and that's the nature of this business. We have to move on. We hopefully get opportunities down the road that we take advantage of.

I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.

A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.