Quotes About Nature

Habits form a second nature.

Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.

Actually, the mysteries of water are similar to those of the blood in the human body. In Nature, normal functions are fulfilled by water just as blood provides many important functions for mankind.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

The ideal we serve and strive to attain could never be evolved from us were it not potentially involved in our nature.

Nature is a definite thing. But nurture is just as powerful. It can really mess with you.

A farmer does not grow something in the sense that he or she creates it. That human is only a small part of the whole process by which nature expresses its being.

The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

Their [cats] effortless passing between the wild and domestic worlds suggests the kind of grace we need as a species to move between nature and culture.

Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. . . . When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.

That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.

A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities.

Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames.

As we meditate regularly, we let go of the conditioned beliefs and accumulated physical and mental toxicity that cloud our perception of our essential, unbounded nature.

Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms.

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.

A successful trader studies human nature and does the opposite of what the general public does.

Reintegration with Nature, which we are, is the recovery of spontaneity.

Nature always levies her tribute.