Quotes About Nature

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.

In most of our lives, we are accustomed to aiming at mastery and control and dominion- - over nature, over our lives, over our jobs, over our careers, over the goods that we buy.

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

The day that you stop looking - because you're content God did it - I don't need you in the lab. You're useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.

It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them.

Human nature will never part with power. Look for an example of a voluntary relinquishment of power from one end of the globe to another - you will find none.

By exhaustively examining one's own mind,one may understand his nature.One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.

Mother is the home we come from. She is nature, soil, ocean.

It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature.

Aikido is love. It is the path that brings our heart into oneness with the spirit of the universe to complete our mission in life by instilling in us a love and reverence for all of nature.

A tardiness in nature, Which often leaves the history unspoke, That it intends to do.

No matter how much it gets abused, the body can restore balance. The first rule is to stop interfering with nature.

I look at nature, I see myself. Paintings are mirrors, so is nature.

So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.

It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.

It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man.

I believe that man is the product of natural evolution that is born from the conflict of being a prisoner and separated from nature, and from the need to find unity and harmony with it.

The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature.

The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.

Don't ask God to change the laws of nature for you.

Rocks crumble, make new forms, oceans move the continents, mountains rise up and down like ghosts yet all is natural, all is change.