Quotes About Nature

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

It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.

It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man.

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

God, give me by Your grace what You give to dogs by nature.

Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma.

I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.

All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know.

The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to.

I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.

A woodpecker's drilling Echoes To the mountain clouds.

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.

If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry forever.

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.

Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.

When you don't follow your nature there is a hole in the universe where you were supposed to be.

Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.

Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.

In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless; it is our real nature.

The task that we face today is to understand the language of nature.