Quotes About Nature

Conservatives try to adjust their behavior to fit the facts of nature. Liberals try to adjust the facts of nature to fit their behavior.

Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.

The purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the sky-like nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our unchanging pure awareness, which underlies the whole of life and death

It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.

Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it.

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.

Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton.

Souls do not wish to be bullied, but gently brought back; such is the nature of man.

A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

They do say breastfeeding is nature's lipo.

Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.

I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature

Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!

Immerse yourself in nature's symphony and let your senses burst with joy.

It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.

A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.

Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.

God and Nature met in light.

Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable.

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure.