Quotes About Nature

The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.

I enjoy an evening stroll. It helps me to reflect and eases stress.

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That's what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy.

I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

I have a strong feeling that the subject of evolution is beautiful without the excuse of creationists needing to be bashed.

Breed is stronger than pasture.

There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man's making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands.

On your own, relying on yourself, you will never feel you are stronger than the mountain, and your respect for the peak grows.

The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization, cement pavements, office buildings, radios have overwhelmed us, the need for regeneration has increased, and the impulses are even stronger.

I'm convinced that the earth is much stronger than us.

It's of very little importance to me that I was born gay. It doesn't make me a better athlete, it doesn't make me a stronger person, it doesn't really do anything to enhance my life. It's just something I was born with, the same as green eyes.

The romantic image of the ancient world is very inspiring, as is nature itself, but I think the dissatisfaction with our modern world is the strongest force keeping me going.

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

I strongly believe that the fundamental laws of nature are not emergent phenomena.

Most of all, I am struck by an irony central to the lot of a purebred dog: As it attains the hallmarks of its breed, it seems to simultaneously relinquish its basic dogginess, until it is less a dog than a Pomeranian, Collie or Bloodhound.

I am not the only scientist to be struck by the power and meaning of Lamium album in bloom.

First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.

I'm by nature someone that quite likes to understand how things are working, likes some sense of structure, and I've fallen into the worst possible trade for that.

At Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, I started taking psychology courses. I was interested in the nature of the human mind, the structure itself, pathologies with which it is afflicted. I really intended to be a writer all along, but I needed to take a subject that I could make a living at, either teaching it or doing it.