Quotes About Nature

Nature laughs at the difficulties of integration.

This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus.

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

Only love can penetrate all your karmas and resistances and set your heart on fire with the awareness of its true nature.

Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.

The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely great.

Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned knees.

I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

Instead of trying to modify what nature brought us, we embraced it.

I have had three masters, Nature, Velasquez, and Rembrandt.

In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord.

Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.

It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'.

So multiverse or not, we still have to come to terms with the origin of the laws of nature. And the only viable explanation here is the divine Mind.

There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.

Nature won't be summoned to order and won't be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.

The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.

Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.

Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!