Quotes About Nature

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

By nature I will find hope in everything. Even if it's the most incredibly hopeless situation or circumstance. That's just me... I'll never be able to see things any other way.

I don't see how anybody could have a passion for nature without having an equally developed tolerance for the cold.

Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.

For try as one may to expel nature with a hayfork, it will always come back.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere.

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

Charlie Chaplin said something to the effect that humor is an act of defiance, that we must laugh in the face of our helplessness in the forces of nature or go insane. And where is he now? Dead.

Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both.

To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.

Look in the perfumes of flowers and of nature for peace of mind and joy of life.

Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has.

All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

If you do not try to make food delicious, you will find that nature has made it so.

Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

..to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.

I am well again, I came to life in the cool winds and crystal waters of the mountains.

I guess it all depends on your nature. Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.

A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.

There's something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It's just breathtaking.

To think, we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth.