Quotes About Nature

The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.

Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.

If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.

Mankind's ability to understand and control the forces of nature greatly exceeds our ability to govern ourselves

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.

I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.

When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we will automatically be meditating always. (151)

Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings of our own nature.

Isn't that weird, we've made nature against the law. That's how un-natural we've become.

I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

As one scientist puts it, we can now assume that just as children need good nutrition and adequate sleep, they may very well need contact with nature.

Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.

The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.

In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

What use is it for me to force my nature? / For my nature shall always remain / What it is and conquer what belongs to it, / However men may narrow its path.

The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.

Structure is something that calms our nature; we know this of toddlers.

Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.

People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.

Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn't fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive.

Man can make only the rules. He cannot make the laws, which are the laws of nature. It is the understanding of these laws that enables a student to draw.